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词条 1850 in rail transport
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  1. Events

      January events    May events    July events   August events  September events   October events  November events  Unknown date events 

  2. Births

     February births  November births 

  3. Deaths

     July deaths 

  4. References

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Events

January events

  • January – Maine Central Railroad predecessor Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad is completed between Auburn, Maine and Waterville, Maine.

May events

  • May 13 – The Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft opens the Rostock-Bützow-Bad Kleinen and Güstrow-Bützow railway lines in northern Germany.

July events

  • July 1 – Joseph Hamilton Beattie succeeds John Viret Gooch as locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway.
  • July 4 – Chile : The first section of the Copiapó-Caldera railway line – the first one in South America – between Caldera and Monte Amargo was inaugurated on July 4 of 1850 in honour of the nationality of William Wheelwright, the American business man responsible for the project.

August events

  • August 29 – Robert Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England is opened by Queen Victoria.[1]

September events

  • September 20 – The land grant for construction of the Illinois Central Railroad, the first railroad land grant in the United States,[2] is approved.[3]

October events

  • October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened.[4]

November events

  • November 19 – Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.[5]
  • November 20 – The first train operates on the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Milwaukee Road.[6]

Unknown date events

  • The Richmond and Danville Railroad begins operation in Virginia.
  • Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, the Panama Railway.

Births

February births

  • February 27 – Henry Huntington, nephew of Collis P. Huntington and executive in charge of Pacific Electric in the early part of the 20th century (d. 1927).

November births

  • November 19 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913–1920, is born (d. 1934)[7][8][9]

Deaths

July deaths

  • July 7 – Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1786).[10]

References

1. ^{{cite web|author=University of Newcastle upon Tyne|title=SINE: Structure Details|url=http://www.sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1143|access-date=July 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060324063802/http://www.sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=1143|archive-date=March 24, 2006|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}
2. ^{{cite book| page=157| quote=The first land grant ever given by Congress to assist in the construction of a railroad ...| title=History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870| first=Howard Gray, Ph.D.| last=Brownson| year=1967| edition=first reprint| orig-year=1915| publisher=University of Illinois| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TwbLkDkHPcC&pg=PA314&dq=%22Illinois+Central%22+land+grant&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgtvm0t8bZAhWoy4MKHZVCCPoQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=first%20land%20grant&f=false| via=Google Books}}
3. ^{{cite book| page=59| quote=The Illinois Central ... law was approved Sept. 20, 1850 ...| title=Railroad Land Grants 1850-1857; a Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Master of Letters in History and Economics| first=John Bell| last=Sanborn| year=1897| publisher=University of Wisconsin| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_M7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22Illinois+Central%22+land+grant&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgtvm0t8bZAhWoy4MKHZVCCPoQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=%22Illinois%20Central%22%20land%20grant&f=false| via=Google Books}}
4. ^{{cite book|author =Baughan, Peter E.|title=The Chester & Holyhead Railway, vol. 1|year=1972|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=0-7153-5617-8}}
5. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.freep.com/article/20101114/NEWS01/11140539/1001/News/Irate-farmers-burn-freight-house-in-1850| title=Irate farmers burn freight house in 1850| work=Detroit Free Press| date=November 14, 2010| accessdate=November 14, 2010}}
6. ^{{cite web|author =Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society|year=2005|url=http://avenue.org/nrhs/histnov.htm| title=This month in railroad history – November|accessdate=November 20, 2005 }}
7. ^Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1934, p. 17.
8. ^Railway Age, September 29, 1934, p. 390.
9. ^{{cite book|editor =Howson, Elmer T.|editor2 =D. A. Steel|editor3 =J. B. Tebo| title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America| edition=1922| location=New York|publisher=Simmons-Boardman|year=1922|page=267}}
10. ^{{cite web| date=September 22, 2004| url=http://www.steamindex.com/people/hackwort.htm| title=Timothy Hackworth|accessdate=February 9, 2005 }}
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