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{{Year in rail transport|prev=1842|curr=1843|next=1844|decade=1840}}EventsJanuary events- January 3 – The Great Western Railway of England officially opens its Swindon Works.[1]
- January 28 – Boston and Maine Railroad and Eastern Railroad reach an agreement to both lease the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad as a joint line to Portland, Maine.
February events - February 23 – Boston and Maine Railroad extends its line to Agamenticus.
- February 25 – The Grand Duke of Hesse and Grand Duke of Baden in present-day Germany agree to construct the Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn from Heidelberg to a connection with the state railway in Baden.
July events- July – The Leeds and Bradford Railway, in West Yorkshire, England, obtains its Act of Parliament.
October events- October – Horatio Allen succeeds William Maxwell as president of the Erie Railroad.[2]
- October 15 – Official opening of first continuous international railway line between Antwerp, Belgium and Köln, Germany (third day of the opening festivities of Antwerp-Köln, part Liège (Belgium) – Köln), making Herbesthal Railway Station the first international border station in the world.
November events- November 1 – The earliest ancestor of the Rutland Railroad, the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, is chartered by the state of Vermont.
Unknown date events- John Cooke, future founder of Cooke Locomotive Works, is promoted to superintendent at American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.
BirthsFebruary births- February 3 – William Cornelius Van Horne, oversaw the major construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, youngest superintendent of Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1915).
- February 27 – Thomas Lowry, president of Minneapolis Street Railway 1877–1892, president of Twin City Rapid Transit, president of Soo Line Railroad 1889–1890 and 1892–1909, is born (d. 1909).
July births- July 15 – Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1888–1893 (d. 1919).[3]
August births- August 25 – Inoue Masaru, Japanese bureaucrat, first Director of Railways (d. 1910).
November births- November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, president of New York Central railroad (d. 1899).
Deaths{{Empty section|date=July 2010}}References1. ^{{cite book|author=Peck, Alan S.|title=The Great Western at Swindon Works|year=1983|publisher=Oxford Publishing Co|location=Poole|isbn=0-86093-177-3|page=39}}
2. ^{{cite web|author=Stratton, Fred|url=http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|title=Erie Railroad presidents|accessdate=2005-03-02|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html|archivedate=18 March 2005|deadurl=yes}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887|location=Chicago, Illinois|publisher=Railway Age|year=1887|page=236}}
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