1840 in rail transport

1840 in rail transport

Events

May events

* May 11 – The London and South Western Railway opens its original main line throughout to Southampton (England). [cite book|author=Williams, R. A.|title=The London & South Western Railway, vol. 1: The formative years|date=1968|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-4188-X]

August events

* 12 August – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Ayr.
* 17 August – The first railroad built in Milan, Italy, the Milan and Monza Rail Road opens for service.

October events

* October 9 – 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). [cite book|author=Barrie, D. S.|title=The Taff Vale Railway|publisher=Oakwood Press|date=1950]

Unknown date events

* The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad completes construction in North Carolina.
* Mordecai W. Jackson and George Mack partner to create a farm implement manufacturing company that would eventually become Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company. [cite web| url=http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/jacksonwoodin.htm| title=Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company| publisher=Mid-Continent Railway Museum| date=2006-04-11| accessdate=2008-04-16| ] [cite web| url=http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/columbia/bios/woodin-clemuel-r.txt| title=WOODIN, Clemuel Ricketts| work=Columbia-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies| publisher=USGenWeb| date=2005-07-01| accessdate=2008-04-16| Extracted from cite book| title=Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District| publisher=Biographical Publishing Company| location=Chicago| year=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). [cite web|author=Fordyce, Jim|date=1999|url=http://www.fordyce.org/genealogy/biographies/Biog_SamuelWFordyce.html|title=Samuel W. Fordyce|accessdate=2005-08-15]

June births

* June 6 – William Dudley Chipley, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873-1876 (d. 1897).
* June 16 – 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). [" [http://www.my-cousins.com/getperson.php?personID=I150358&tree=Master Alpheus Beede Stickney] ". Retrieved February 8 2006.]

August births

* August 23 – Brayton C. 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 24 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H. K. Porter, Inc (d. 1921).

Deaths

References

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