1850 in rail transport

none July 2022 1849 1850 1851 1850 Events January events January – Maine Central Railroad predecessor Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad is completed between Auburn, Maine and Waterville, Maine. May events May 13 – The Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft opens the Rostock-Bützow-Bad Kleinen and Güstrow-Bützow railway lines in northern Germany. July events July 1 – Joseph Hamilton Beattie succeeds John Viret Gooch as locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway. July 4 – Chile: The first section of the Copiapó-Caldera railway line – the second in South America – between Caldera and Monte Amargo is inaugurated today in honour of the nationality of William Wheelwright, the American businessman responsible for the project. August events August 29 – Robert Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England is opened by Queen Victoria.University of Newcastle upon Tyne SINE: Structure Details http://www.sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1143 July 13, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20060324063802/http://www.sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1143 March 24, 2006 dead September events September 20 – The land grant for construction of the Illinois Central Railroad, the first railroad land grant in the United States,157 The first land grant ever given by Congress to assist in the construction of a railroad ... History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870 Howard Gray Brownson 1967 first reprint 1915 University of Illinois https://books.google.com/books?id=8TwbLkDkHPcC&pg=PA314 Google Books is approved.59 The Illinois Central ... law was approved Sept. 20, 1850 ... Railroad Land Grants 1850-1857; a Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Master of Letters in History and Economics John Bell Sanborn 1897 University of Wisconsin https://books.google.com/books?id=C_M7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13 Google Books October events thumb|The original box section Britannia Bridge October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened.Baughan, Peter E. The Chester & Holyhead Railway, vol. 1 1972 David & Charles Newton Abbot 0-7153-5617-8 November events November 19 – Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.http://www.freep.com/article/20101114/NEWS01/11140539/1001/News/Irate-farmers-burn-freight-house-in-1850 Irate farmers burn freight house in 1850 Detroit Free Press November 14, 2010 November 14, 2010 November 20 – The first train operates on the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Milwaukee Road.Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society 2005 http://avenue.org/nrhs/histnov.htm This month in railroad history – November November 20, 2005 Unknown date events The Richmond and Danville Railroad begins operation in Virginia. Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, the Panama Railway. Births February births February 27 – Henry Huntington, nephew of Collis P. Huntington and executive in charge of Pacific Electric in the early part of the 20th century (d. 1927). November births November 19 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913–1920 (d. 1934).Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1934, p. 17.Railway Age, September 29, 1934, p. 390.Howson, Elmer T. D. A. Steel J. B. Tebo The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America 1922 New York Simmons-Boardman 1922 267 Deaths July deaths July 7 – Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1786).September 22, 2004 https://steamindex.com/people/hackwort.htm Timothy Hackworth February 9, 2005 References