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- Events February events April events May events June events July events August events September events October events November events Unknown date events
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- Deaths September deaths
- References
{{Year in rail transport|prev=1859|curr=1860|next=1861|decade=1860}}Events February events - February 1 – Stockholders and officials take an inaugural ride on the first Staten Island Railway line between Vanderbilt's Landing and Eltingville.;[1]
April events - April 23 - The Staten Island Railway starts operations in Staten Island, New York; this is now the oldest rapid transit right-of-way in New York City, but is operated separately from the New York City Subway.[1]
May events - May 7 – The Bavarian State Railway opens connecting Rosenheim, Prien and Traunstein.
- May 14 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Annadale.[2]
- May 15 – New Brunswick issues the first postage stamps to depict a locomotive.[3]
June events - June 2 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Tottenville.[1][4]
- June 26 - Opening of first railway in Southern Africa, the Natal Railway from Durban to The Point in the Colony of Natal ({{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on}} of standard gauge).[5]{{page needed|date=October 2016}}
July events - July 2 – Cessation of operation as an atmospheric railway of the Bois de Vésinet–Saint-Germain-en-Laye section of the Paris–Saint-Germain line, the last surviving atmospheric working.[6]
- July 19 – The London and South Western Railway extension to Exeter opens.
August events - August 17 – The Oil Creek Railroad is chartered by railroad investor Thomas Struthers of Warren, Pennsylvania, and several other Warren businessmen.
- August 25 – The Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII, presides over the opening ceremonies for the Victoria Railway Bridge near Montreal, Province of Canada.
September events - September 17 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad, chartered on February 11, 1859, and predecessor to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is organized.
October events - October (approx.) – Installation of the first water troughs for steam locomotives to pick up water at speed, by the London and North Western Railway at Mochdre, Conwy, on its North Wales Coast (or Chester and Holyhead) line.[7]
- October 26 – The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn in Germany opens between Bochum Hauptbahnhof and Witten.
November events - November 16 – The Atherstone rail accident in England killed 10 Irish cattle drovers.
Unknown date events - The first 2-6-0s with leading trucks are built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.[8]
- Kingston Locomotive Works, predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, declares bankruptcy.
Births January births - January 3 – Henry Clay Hall, commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917–1928 (died 1936).
December births - December 6 – Howard Elliott, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1903–1913 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1913, is born.[9]
Deaths September deaths - September 18 – Joseph Locke, construction engineer of Stockton and Darlington Railway and Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway (b. 1805).
References- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), [https://web.archive.org/web/20060424080243/http://www.railways.incanada.net/candate/candate.htm Significant dates in Canadian railway history]. Retrieved August 25, 2005.
- Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
1. ^1 2 {{cite book |last1=Roess |first1=Roger P. |last2=Sansome |first2=Gene |title=The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System |date=2013 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-642-30484-2 |pages=223–247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfZ0VxuLoc0C&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false |accessdate=4 October 2015| via=Google Books}}
2. ^{{cite web|last1=Leigh |first1=Irvin |last2=Matus |first2=Paul |title=Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History |url=http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html |website=thethirdrail.net |publisher=The Third Rail Online |accessdate=2015-06-27 |date=January 2002 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530063638/http://www.thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt1.html |archivedate=2015-05-30 |df= }}
3. ^1 c. {{cite journal|first=F. F.|last=Angus|title=Railway Trains on Canada's Stamps|journal=Canadian Rail|issue=209|date=January 1969|publisher=Canadian Railroad Historical Society|pages=20–22}}
4. ^{{cite book |last=Pitanza |first=Marc |title=Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=staten+island+rapid+transit&hl=en |isbn=978-1-4671-2338-9}}
5. ^{{Marshall-GuinnessRail}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Hadfield|first=Charles|title=Atmospheric Railways|year=1967|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=978-0-7153-4107-0}}
7. ^{{cite book|author=Robbins, Michael|title=Points and Signals|year=1967|publisher=George Allen & Unwin|location=London}}
8. ^{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Balkwill|author2=Marshall, John|title=The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats|edition=6th|location=Enfield|publisher=Guinness Publishing|year=1993|isbn=978-0-85112-707-1}}
9. ^Railway Age Gazette (August 1, 1913) pp. 177–8.
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