1842 in rail transport

1842 in rail transport

Events

January events

* January 2 - Commencement of operation of the Railway Clearing House in London, established to settle the division of payments for through traffic over different railways in Britain. [cite book|author=Bagwell, Philip S.|title=The Railway Clearing House in the British Economy 1842-1922|date=1968|publisher=Allen & Unwin|location=London|isbn=0-04-331037-0]

March events

* March 31 - The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway opens to Oldham Werneth railway station in northwest England.

April events

* April 11 - The French government enacts the "Loi relative à l'établissement des grandes lignes de chemins de fer" which establishes the plan for French railroads' placement in a star pattern centered around Paris.

May events

* May 8 - A passenger train traveling between Paris and Versailles derails near Moudon and catches fire, killing 55 people.

June events

* June 13 - Queen Victoria makes the first rail journey by a reigning monarch, on the Great Western Railway of England (Slough to Paddington). [cite book|author=Body, Geoffrey|title=Western Handbook – a digest of GWR and WR data|date=1985|publisher=British Rail (Western)|location=Weston-super-Mare|isbn=0-905466-70-5]

December events

* December - William Maxwell succeeds James Bowen as president of the Erie Railroad. [cite web|author=Stratton, Fred|title=Erie Railroad presidents|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|accessdate=2005-03-02]

Births

October births

* October 12 - Robert Gillespie Reid, builder of many Canadian railway bridges as well as the Newfoundland Railway (d. 1908).

December births

* December 7 - George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1903–1909 (d. 1910).

Unknown date births

* George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (d. 1914).
* Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (d. 1914). [cite web|author=Indiana Historical Society|title=Melville E. Ingalls: Biographical sketch|url=http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0754.html#BIOGRAPHICAL|accessdate=2005-02-15]

Deaths

References


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