1840 in rail transport

none 1839 1840 1841 1840 Events March events 9 March – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed from Wilmington to Weldon, North Carolina. At 161.5 miles (260 km), it is the world's longest railroad at this time.http://www.historync.org/railroad-WWRR.htm Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon) North Carolina Business History 2006 2011-12-02 April events April – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh to near Weldon, North Carolina.http://www.historync.org/railroads.htm Railroads — prior to the Civil War North Carolina Business History 2006 2011-12-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726152211/http://historync.org/railroads.htm 2011-07-26 dead May events 11 May – The London and South Western Railway opens its original main line throughout to Southampton (England).Williams R. A. The London & South Western Railway. Vol. 1: The formative years 1968 David and Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-4188-X July events 1 July - The Midland Counties Railway of England opens its line from Derby and Nottingham via Leicester to a junction with the London and Birmingham Railway at Rugby. August events 12 August – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Ayr, the first inter-urban railroad in Scotland. 17 August – The first railroad built in Milan, Italy, the Milan and Monza Rail Road opens for service. October events 8 October – Formal opening of first section of the Taff Vale Railway, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, from Cardiff Docks to Navigation House (Abercynon).Barrie D. S. The Taff Vale Railway Oakwood Press 1950 Public service begins the following day. December events 21 December – Manchester and Birmingham Railway in England completes Stockport Viaduct (but does not yet bring it into use).Geoffrey O. Holt A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 10: The North West Newton Abbot David and Charles 1978 0-7153-7521-0 117 https://archive.org/details/northwest0010holt/page/117 It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe. Unknown date events By July – August Borsig completes the first steam locomotive built in Germany. Mordecai W. Jackson and George Mack partner to create a farm implement manufacturing company that will eventually become Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company.http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/jacksonwoodin.htm Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company Mid-Continent Railway Museum 2006-04-11 2008-04-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20080511170122/http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/jacksonwoodin.htm 11 May 2008 livehttp://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/columbia/bios/woodin-clemuel-r.txt WOODIN, Clemuel Ricketts Columbia-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies USGenWeb 2005-07-01 2008-04-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20080524075424/http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/columbia/bios/woodin-clemuel-r.txt 2008-05-24 dead Extracted from Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Biographical Publishing Company Chicago 1899 Births January births January 8 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway of England 1877–1902 (d. 1905). January 29 – Henry H. Rogers, American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway (d. 1909). February births February 7 – Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886–1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890–1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (d. 1919).Fordyce, Jim 1999 http://www.fordyce.org/genealogy/biographies/Biog_SamuelWFordyce.html Samuel W. Fordyce 2005-08-15 March births March 31 – Benjamin Baker, British civil engineer, designer of the Forth Railway Bridge (d. 1907).Marshall, John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers 2nd Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2003 0-901461-22-9 John Marshall (railway historian) April births April – William Sykes, English railway signalling engineer (d. 1917). June births June 6 – William Dudley Chipley, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873–1876 (d. 1897). June 14 – William F. Nast, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway September 1868.Waters (1950), p 35. June 27 – Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884–1909 (d. 1916).Alpheus Beede Stickney https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001956/http://www.my-cousins.com/getperson.php?personID=I150358&tree=Master 2016-03-04 . Retrieved February 8, 2006. August births August 23 – Brayton Ives, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1893–1896 (d. 1914). August 25 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (d. 1893).Waters (1950), p 196. November births November 17 – Edmund Morel, English-born civil engineer in Japan (d. 1871). November 24 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H. K. Porter, Inc (d. 1921). Deaths April deaths April 12 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Bohemian-born railway civil engineer (b. 1796) References Waters, Lawrence Leslie 1950 Steel Trails to Santa Fe University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kansas