1853 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 25 - The Cincinnati, Cambridge and Chicago Short Line Railway, a predecessor of Pennsylvania Railroad, is incorporated in Indiana to build from New Castle southeast via Cambridge to the Ohio state line.
* January - The Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, the first railroad built in Arkansas is chartered.

February events

* February 5 - The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, a predecessor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, is established in Iowa to build a railroad between Davenport and Council Bluffs. [Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (1970; reprinted by the Rock Island Technical Society, 1996), " [http://storm.simpson.edu/~RITS/histories/RIHistory.html Yard Clerical Manual: A Brief Historical Overview of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad] ". Retrieved February 5 2006]

April events

* April 2 - The New York Central Railroad is formed through the merger of ten smaller railroads in the New York area.
* April 16 - The first passenger train in India is inaugurated between Bori Bunder, Bombay, and Thana covering a distance of 34 km (21 miles).

May events

* May 17 - The New York Central Railroad is formed through the merger of ten smaller railroads in New York under the direction of Erastus Corning.

July events

* July 8 - The Northern Indiana Railroad is formed through the merger of several smaller railroads in Indiana and Ohio.

August events

* August 1 - The original Acton station (renamed in 1920 to Acton Central) near London, England, opens.
* August 19 - The Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad, a predecessor of the Wabash Railroad, is incorporated in Indiana.

September events

* September 20 - Indianapolis's Union Station, the first union station in the United States, opens.

October events

* October - Homer Ramsdell succeeds Benjamin Loder as president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

* November 7 - The Arkansas Midland Railroad is created by an act of the Arkansas legislature.
* November 10 - Canada's Great Western Railway opens the line from Hamilton, Ontario, to the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.

December events

* December 17 - The Brooklyn City Railroad, the oldest streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York, is incorporated.

Unknown date events

* The Monon Railroad opens its 300 mile (482 km) route between Chicago, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky
* American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works opens.

Births

April births

* April 25 - John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (d. 1943).

October births

* October 6 - Thomas George Shaughnessy, president of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited 1899-1918 (d. 1923).

Deaths

August deaths

* August - George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (b. 1801).

References

* Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (May 2002), " [http://www.arkansashighways.com/planning/F%20&%20E/SRP_2002all.pdf Arkansas state rail plan 2002] " (PDF). Retrieved September 19 2006.
* Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), " [http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history] ". Retrieved November 8 2005.
* " [http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents] ". Retrieved March 15 2005.
* " [http://www.s363.com/dkny/lsms.html History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company] ". Retrieved July 7 2005.
* Missouri Pacific Historical Society, (2005), " [http://mopac.org/history_stlims.asp St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern (SLIMS)] ". Retrieved November 7 2005.
* Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31 1902), " [http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1850.html Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, History of the railroads of Ohio] ". Retrieved August 16 2005.