1837 in rail transport

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Years in rail transport

Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1837.

Events

April events

April 3 – The Paisley and Renfrew Railway is opened in Scotland, a 4 ft 6 in gauge railway providing passenger services hauled by steam locomotives.^[1]
April 18 – Andover and Wilmington Railroad reorganizes and changes its name to Andover and Haverhill Railroad, reflecting plans to extend its line to Haverhill, Massachusetts.
April 24 – The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn, the first major railway line to be built between important cities in Germany, begins passenger operations. It orders locomotive Columbus from Ross Winans, the first exported from the United States.^[2]

July events

July 4 – The Grand Junction Railway, the first trunk railway to be completed in Britain is opened from Birmingham to Warrington, England (82 mi (132 km)), where it connects with other lines.^[3]

July 15 – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr and Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railways are authorised in Scotland.^[1]
July 20 – Euston station is opened as the first London terminus.

August events

August 24 – Queen Marie Amélie and King Louis-Philippe officially open first section of the Paris–Saint-Germain-en-Laye line, the first steam-worked passenger railway in France.

October events

October 30 – The Tsarskoye Selo Railway, the first in the Russian Empire, between Saint Petersburg Tsarskoselsky station and Zarskoje Selo with a length of 23 km (14 mi), opens, engineered by Franz Anton von Gerstner. The locomotive for the new railway was built by Englishman Timothy Hackworth and the gauge is 1829 mm (6 ft). Because the track connected the pleasure sites of the nobility, it was called "the train to the pub."^[4]

November events

November 10 – Opening of first railroad in Cuba (and the Spanish Empire), Havana–Güines, principally for sugar traffic.^[5]
November 23 – Opening of first railroad in Austria, the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn, Vienna–Floridsdorf–Deutsch-Wagram (17.7 km).

Unknown date events

Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor receives the company's first order for new steam locomotives; the order for two locomotives is placed by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and is intended to be the beginning of the railroad's locomotive fleet.
Scottish inventor Robert Davidson produces a model battery-electric locomotive.

Births

April births

April 17 – J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (d. 1913).^[6]

May births

May 6 – William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (d. 1914).^[7]
May 23 – Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (d. 1919).

June births

June 25 – Charles Tyson Yerkes, American financier of rapid transit systems in Chicago and London (d. 1905).^[8]

September births

September 26 – Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893 (d. 1893).

Deaths

March deaths

March 11 – William James, English railway promoter (b. 1771).

Notes

1 2 Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6 – Scotland: the Lowlands and Borders. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5408-6.
↑ Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
↑ Webster, Norman W (1972). Britain's First Trunk Line – the Grand Junction Railway. Bath: Adams & Dart. ISBN 0-239-00105-2.
↑ Haywood, Richard Mowbray (1969). The beginnings of railway development in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I, 1835–1842 . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
↑ Comisión Oficial para la Conmemoración del Primer Centenario del Ferrocarril en España (1948). Cien años de ferrocarril en España, 1. Madrid: Comisión.
↑ Sinclair, Andrew (1981). Corsair: the life of J. Pierpont Morgan. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-77864-1.
↑ Pearson Education (2005). "William Barstow (d. 1914). Strong" . Retrieved 2005-06-02.
↑ "Robber Baron: the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2007.

Related Research Articles

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The railroad reached the Kansas–Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farmland from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress.

In 1948, 14 railroads in North America owned more than 1,000 steam locomotives each. See also: Historical sizes of railroads

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 3751 is a class "3751" 4-8-4 "Heavy Mountain" type steam locomotive built in May 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). No. 3751 was the first 4-8-4 steam locomotive built for the Santa Fe and was referenced in documentation as type: "Heavy Mountain", "New Mountain", or "Mountain 4-wheel trailer". No. 3751 served in passenger duties until being retired in 1953.

The Grand Canyon Limited was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It was train Nos. 23 & 24 between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.

References

White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders". Railroad History . 154: 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. JSTOR 43523785. OCLC 1785797.
Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. p. 196.
Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.

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[Thomas-1] 1 2 Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6 – Scotland: the Lowlands and Borders. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5408-6.

[2] Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.

[3] Webster, Norman W (1972). Britain's First Trunk Line – the Grand Junction Railway. Bath: Adams & Dart. ISBN 0-239-00105-2.

[4] Haywood, Richard Mowbray (1969). The beginnings of railway development in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I, 1835–1842 . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

[5] Comisión Oficial para la Conmemoración del Primer Centenario del Ferrocarril en España (1948). Cien años de ferrocarril en España, 1. Madrid: Comisión.

[6] Sinclair, Andrew (1981). Corsair: the life of J. Pierpont Morgan. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-77864-1.

[7] Pearson Education (2005). "William Barstow (d. 1914). Strong" . Retrieved 2005-06-02.

[8] "Robber Baron: the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2007.

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