1852 in rail transport

Events

July events

* July 14 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Chepstow Bridge is opened to traffic, completing the South Wales Railway throughout from Gloucester (England) to Swansea. [cite book|title=Description of the wrought-iron tubular suspension bridge on the South Wales Railway, over the River Wye, at Chepstow; from the designs of I. K. Brunel, Esq|date=1856]

October events

* October 10 - the first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
* October 14 - Opening of London King's Cross station by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain). [cite book|author=Jackson, Alan A.|title=London's Termini|date=1985|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-863-4]

November events

* November 20 - The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway line between Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, opens. [cite web|url= http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html|title=History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company|accessdate=2005-08-06]

December events

*December 12 Wilhelm von Engerth patents the Engerth locomotive, an early articulated locomotive.

Unknown date events

* John Cooke steps down from the superintendent position at Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works to partner with Charles Danforth in forming the new locomotive manufacturing company, Danforth, Cooke and Company in Paterson, New Jersey.
* The first 2-6-0 steam locomotives are built.
* John Edgar Thomson becomes president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Births

August events

* August 16 – Charles Sanger Mellen, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1897-1903 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1903 (d. 1927). [cite news|publisher=New York Times|title=Obituary: Charles Sanger Mellen|date=November 18, 1927|pages=p 23]

Unknown date births

* J. Elfreth Watkins, railroad civil engineer and first curator for the Smithsonian Institution's railroad artifacts including "John Bull".

Deaths

References