1868 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 1 - Construction begins on the Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad mainline that will connect Denver to Golden, Colorado.
* January 3 - The Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Railroad is incorporated in Michigan.
* January 14 - The Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad officially changes its name to Colorado Central Railroad.

February events

* February 12 - The Columbus and Indiana Central Railway and Chicago and Great Eastern Railway merge to form the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway.
* February 17 - Manningham station opens on the Midland Railway north of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

April events

* April 3 - The Flushing and North Side Rail Road is incorporated in New York. [cite web| url=http://arrts-arrchives.com/|title=aRRt's aRRchives|author=Huneke, John|year=2006|accessmonthday=3 April|accessyear=2006]

May events

* May - The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

July events

* July - Jay Gould succeeds John S. Eldridge as president of the Erie Railroad. [cite web|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=2005-03-15]

August events

* August 20 - Abergele train disaster in North Wales: a London and North Western Railway "Irish Mail" passenger train on the Chester and Holyhead line collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin leaving 33 dead, the greatest toll up to this date in any British railway accident. [cite book|first=Robert|last=Hume|title=Death by Chance: The Abergele Train Disaster, 1868|date=2004|publisher=Gwasg Carreg Gwalch|location=Llanrwst|isbn=0-86381-900-1]

eptember events

* September 2 - William F. Nast succeeds Samuel C. Pomeroy as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
* September 10 - Romania's Gara de Nord station in Bucharest opens.
* September 24 - Henry C. Lord succeeds William F. Nast as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
* September 25 - The Big Four purchases the Southern Pacific Railroad.

October events

* October 1 - Opening of the Midland Railway's St Pancras station in London, England. [cite book|author=Jackson, Alan A.|title=London's Termini|date=1985|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-863-4]
* October 26 - The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad opens between Midland and Averill, Michigan. [cite web| url=http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1860s/TimeLine1860sBackUp.htm| title=Michigan Railroad History Timeline: 1860s| accessdate=2006-10-26]
* October 30 - Ground is broken in Topeka, Kansas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.

Unknown date events

* Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Births

May births

* May 12 – Samuel T. Bledsoe, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1933–1939 (d. 1939). [cite web| url=http://tribes.tribe.net/e388baea-51eb-417f-9390-06fe37f92e41/thread/482a36e6-8aac-44a1-9a68-61e04d03b4df| title=10,00 Famous Fremasons..prepared By Truman written by Denslow| accessdate=2008-05-19| date=1957-12-09| work=reprinted by Tribe.net| ] [cite book| title=History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway| author=Bryant, Keith L., Jr.| year=1982| publisher=University of Nebraska Press| isbn=0803260660| pages=pp 260-261| ]
* May 26 – Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell, Chief mechanical engineer for the Southern Railway 1923–1937 (d. 1944). [cite web|date=February 26 1999|url=http://www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk/enthuse/engineers/southern/maunsell.htm|title=Railway engineers - Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell|accessdate=2005-02-10] [cite web|date=November 2 2004|url=http://www.steamindex.com/people/maunsell.htm|title=Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell|accessdate=2005-02-10]

Deaths

References

* " [http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company] ". Retrieved August 6 2005.
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