1863 in rail transport

none 1862 1863 1864 1860 Events January events January 8 – Ground is broken by the Central Pacific Railroad in Sacramento, California, on the western half of the First transcontinental railroad in North America.Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World Simon & Schuster 2000 New York 0-7432-0317-8 106 registration https://archive.org/details/nothinglikeitinw00ambr_0Sierra Foothill Magazine http://www.sierrafoothillmagazine.com/train.html California Choo-Choos 2005-12-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20051220232331/http://www.sierrafoothillmagazine.com/train.html 20 December 2005 live January 10 – The Metropolitan Railway, first section of the London Underground, opens from Paddington to Farringdon Street.Left Sarah Key dates in Britain's railway history The Guardian Unlimited 2002-01-15 https://www.theguardian.com/transport/Story/0,2763,633951,00.html 7 July 2007 February events February 20 – The London Pneumatic Despatch Company inaugurates its pneumatic tube atmospheric railway for parcels between Euston station and the G.P.O. North Western District sorting office in London, England (0.75 mi km on of 2 ft (60 cm) gauge).Hadfield Charles Atmospheric Railways 1967 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4107-3 March events March 2 – Clapham Junction railway station in England opens. March 6 – The final vote between construction of a rail line or a channel is taken with the result six to three in favor of the rail line, which would eventually become the Randsfjorden Line in Norway. March 16 – Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Germany opens its Szczecin–Pasewalk and Anklam–Pasewalk–Prenzlau–Angermünde lines. May events May 3 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad officially changes names to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to more closely match the railroad's goal of reaching Santa Fe, New Mexico, by rail.Baker Library Historical Collections, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Records, 1879–1896 https://web.archive.org/web/20100622021040/http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/sfa/atchison,_topeka.htm 2010-06-22 . Retrieved May 10, 2005. May 14 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway line from Bombay (Mumbai) to Poonah (Pune) through the Bhor Ghat using zig zag and 28 tunnels is opened.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 978-0-85112-707-1 66–7 June events June 11 – The Parliament of Norway passes the construction of what would become the Randsfjorden Line with 65 against 44 votes.På sporet med Krøderkippen Berntsen Ulf Lund Thure Lunner Dagfinn 1997 Norwegian Railway Club; Krøderen Line Foundation 82-90286-20-1 Norwegian 27 July events July 1 – The Strathspey Railway opens from Dufftown to Abernethy, including Carron Bridge (River Spey), the last cast iron railway bridge to be built in Scotland.Walker David W. Woodworth Matthew The Buildings of Scotland – Aberdeenshire: North and Moray 2015 Yale University Press New Haven 9780300204285 500 September events September The Kansas Pacific Railway begins construction in Kansas, building westward from Kansas City toward Colorado. The Western Railroad from Fayetteville to the coalfields of Egypt, North Carolina, is completed.http://www.historync.org/railroad-WRR.htm CommunicationSolutions/ISI Railroad — Western Railroad Company North Carolina Business History 2006 2010-02-01 October events October 5 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York; this is now the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway, the largest rapid transit system in the United States and one of the largest in the world. October 17 – Thee San Francisco and San Jose Railroad begins excursion service between San Francisco and Menlo Park, California.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18631018.2.3 The San Jose Railroad 18 October 1863 Daily Alta California 15 4981 19 April 2017 October 23 – Festiniog Railway in North Wales introduces steam locomotives into general service, the first time this has been done anywhere in the world on a public railway of such a narrow gauge (2 ft (60 cm)).Ransom, P. J. G. Narrow Gauge Steam: its origins and world-wide development 1996 Oxford Publishing Co Sparkford 0-86093-533-7 October 26 – The first rails are laid for construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in California.http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Encyclopedia.html Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History Robertson, Donald B. Cornell, Wayne 1998 2006-10-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20061015215732/http://cprr.org/Museum/Encyclopedia.html 15 October 2006 live November events November 9 – Gov. Stanford, Central Pacific Railroad's first locomotive, enters service in California.Diebert, Timothy S. Strapac, Joseph A. Southern Pacific Company Steam Locomotive Conpendium Shade Tree Books 1987 0-930742-12-5 December events December 1 – Opening of first steam-operated passenger railway in New Zealand, at Christchurch in South Island 1600mm gauge).October 2016 December 2 – Union Pacific Railroad holds groundbreaking ceremonies in the construction of the First transcontinental railroad at Omaha, Nebraska, but the first rails aren't laid for another year. December 4 – Construction begins on the Randsfjorden Line in Norway. December 15 – First mountain railway opens in Romania, from Anina to Oraviţa. Unknown date events John W. Murphy builds a Whipple-type truss bridge across the Lehigh River at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the United States, the first known to have both tension and compression members in wrought iron.American Railroad Bridges Theodore Cooper https://books.google.com/books?id=SwM5AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Mauch+Chunk%22+truss+bridge&pg=PA18 1889 18 2022-06-05 Classification yard opens at Saint-Étienne in France. Henry Farnam retires from the presidency of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Jackson and Sharp Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Wilmington, Delaware. Births October births October 31 – William Gibbs McAdoo, American lawyer, statesman and Director General of Railroads (d. 1941). Deaths November deaths November 2 – Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First transcontinental railroad (b. 1826). References