1876 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1876.

Events

January events

• January 1 - The Bristol and Exeter Railway, in England, is amalgamated into the Great Western Railway.

February events

• February 1 - The South Devon Railway, in England, is amalgamated into the Great Western Railway.

March events

• March 1 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad reaches Pueblo, Colorado.^[1]

  May events

  • May 1 - The Midland Railway's Settle-Carlisle line in England is opened to passenger traffic.^[2]

    July events

    • July - First railroad in China, the Woosung Road (or Woosung Railway), begins operation, connecting Shanghai and Woosung (now Baoshan District). The 2ft 6in (726 mm) gauge line was built by British interests. (It was demolished in October 1877).^[3][4]

      October events

      • October 16 - The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway officially changes its name to Miami Valley Railway.

      September events

      • September 1 - The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
      • September 5 - The first through train from San Francisco, California, arrives in Los Angeles, California, after travelling over the Southern Pacific Railroad's newly completed Tehachapi Loop.

      December events

      • December 29 - Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States: The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The Pacific Express, collapses the Ashtabula River bridge dropping eleven passenger cars into a fire started by the car stoves. Of the 159 people onboard, 92 are killed and 64 injured, the worst train disaster in America to date.

      Unknown date events

      • Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

      Births

      May births

      • May 27 - William Stanier, Chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932–1944 (d. 1965).

      June births

      • June 19 - Nigel Gresley, Chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway 1923–1941 (d. 1941).^[5]

        Deaths

        June deaths

        • June 2 - Charles Beyer, German-British steam locomotive manufacturer, co-founder of Beyer-Peacock (b. 1813).^[6]

          References

          1. ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally. 
          2. ^ Gough, John (1989). The Midland Railway – a chronology. Gwernymynydd: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-12-1. 
          3. ^ The Woosung "Road". Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
          4. ^ Pong, David (1973). "Confucian Patriotism and the Destruction of the Woosung Railway, 1877". Modern Asian Studies 7: 647-76. 
          5. ^ Sir Nigel Gresley (December 9 2004). Retrieved on 2005-02-09.
          6. ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9. 

          
          

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