1843 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1843.
Events
January events
- January 3 - The Great Western Railway of England officially opens its Swindon Works.[1]
February events
- February 25 - The Grand Duke of Hesse and Grand Duke of Baden in present-day Germany agree to construct the Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn from Heidelberg to a connection with the state railway in Baden.
July events
- July - The Leeds and Bradford Railway, in West Yorkshire, England, obtains its Act of Parliament.
October events
- October - Horatio Allen succeeds William Maxwell as president of the Erie Railroad.[2]
- October 15 - Official opening of first continuous international railway line between Antwerp, Belgium and Köln, Germany (third day of the opening festivities of Antwerp-Köln, part Liège (Belgium) - Köln), making Herbesthal Railway Station the first international border station in the world.
Unknown date events
- John Cooke, future founder of Cooke Locomotive Works, is promoted to superintendent at American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.
Births
February births
- February 3 – William Cornelius Van Horne, oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1915).
- February 27 – Thomas Lowry, president of Minneapolis Street Railway 1877-1892, president of Twin City Rapid Transit, president of Soo Line Railroad 1889-1890 and 1892-1909, is born (d. 1909).
July births
- July 15 – Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1888-1893 (d. 1919).[3]
August births
- August 25 – Inoue Masaru, Japanese bureaucrat, first Director of Railways (d. 1910).
November births
- November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, president of New York Central railroad (d. 1899).
References
- ↑ Peck, Alan S. (1983). The Great Western at Swindon Works. Poole: Oxford Publishing Co. p. 39. ISBN 0-86093-177-3.
- ↑ Stratton, Fred. "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on 18 March 2005. Retrieved 2005-03-02.
- ↑ The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. 1887. p. 236.
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