1845 in rail transport

1845 in rail transport

Events

July events

* July – James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
* 21 July – An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament having sanctioned mi to km|2816|abbr=yes of new construction. [cite book|author=Lewin, Henry Grote|title=The Railway Mania and its aftermath, 1845-1852|year=1936|publisher=Railway Gazette|location=London]

August events

* August – Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.

Unknown date events

* William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith & Company.
* Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.

Births

June births

* June 24 – Georges Nagelmackers, the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains (born in Liège, Belgium, and died 1905).

November births

* November 18 – Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway in 1868 and Brooklyn Rapid Transit beginning in 1902, is born. [cite book|author=Busbey, T. Addison, editor|title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1906|location=Chicago, Illinois| publisher=Railway Age|year=1906|pages=666]

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

* William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).

References

* " [http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents] ". Retrieved March 15 2005.
* Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), " [http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm This Month in Railroad History: March] ". Retrieved March 30 2005.
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