1886 in rail transport

1886 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 1 - The Mersey Railway opened to public traffic between Birkenhead and Liverpool by tunnel beneath the River Mersey, England. [cite book|author=Gahan, John W.|title=The Line Beneath the Liners – a hundred years of Mersey Railway sights and sounds|date=1983|publisher=Countyvise|location=Birkenhead|isbn=0-907768-40-7]

March events

* March 30 - Executives from several railroad companies operating in the southern United States meet and agree to all regauge their railroads to standard gauge, RailGauge|sg, by June 1. [cite web| author=Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society|url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm|title=This month in railroad history: March| accessmonthday=29 March|accessyear=2006]

May events

* May - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway takes control of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.

July events

* July 8 - Russian emperor Alexander III establishes Railway Worker Day as a national holiday on the anniversary of the name day of Nikolai I, who first commissioned Russian railroad construction. [cite news| url=http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10684207&PageNum=0| title=Railway Worker Day marked in Russia| date=2006-08-06| accessdate=2006-08-07| publisher=ITAR-TASS ]

August events

* August 17 - The 7 mile (11.3 km) long Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad is incorporated in Ottawa County, Ohio.

September events

* September 1 – Regular traffic (initially freight only) begins to pass through the Great Western Railway’s Severn Tunnel linking southern Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire. [cite web|url=http://www.severntales.co.uk/tunnel.htm|work=Severn Tales|title=The Severn Tunnel|accessdate=2007-08-01]
* September 9 – The rail connection to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, is completed by a predecessor of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway.

October events

* October 18 - Between 5:00 AM and 6:00 PM, the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, a predecessor of the Cotton Belt Railroad, converts 418 miles (673 km) of track from narrow gauge to standard gauge.

November events

* November 20 - The San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway is incorporated as a Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary to build a rail connection between its namesake cities in California. [cite book| author=Serpico, Philip C.| title=Santa Fé Route to the Pacific| year=1988| publisher=Omni Publications| Location=Palmdale, California| id=ISBN 0-88418-000-X| pages=p 23-24 ]

Unknown date events

* The first refrigerator cars on the Southern Pacific Railroad enter operation.
* The Southern Pacific Railroad wins the landmark Supreme Court case "Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad" which establishes equal rights under the law to corporations.

Births

May births

* May 4 - Henry G. Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1976).

Unknown date births

* W. Graham Claytor, president of Southern Railway (US) (d. 1971).

Deaths

July deaths

* July 24 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (b. 1809). [cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|publisher=Railway & Canal Historical Society|location=Oxford|date=2003|isbn=0-901461-22-9]

December deaths

* December 28 - William Kimmel, director for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1812).

Unknown date deaths

* David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (b. 1810).

References

* Clowes, J. A.; Railways of Canada Archives (1999), " [http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailways/articles/EastNBRailHistory.htm Eastern New Brunswick's Railway History] ". Retrieved September 8 2005.
* Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31 1902), " [http://www.railsandtrails.com/ohiorailwayreport/1902/1880.html Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, history of the railroads of Ohio] ". Retrieved August 16 2005.
* Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), " [http://avenue.org/nrhs/histoct.htm This Month in Railroad History: October] ". Retrieved October 18 2005.
* Santa Fe Railroad (1945), "Along Your Way", Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.


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