1857 in rail transport

Years in rail transport

1856 in rail transport 1857 in rail transport 1858 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1857.

Events

January events

• January 13 - Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381 for a railroad scale.

February events

• February 9 - The Central Pacific Railroad is incorporated in Nebraska Territory to build a railroad from the Missouri River through the Rocky Mountains to Washington Territory.^[1]
• February 18 - The Galena and Illinois River Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, is incorporated in Illinois.^[2]

April events

• April 11 - The Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway company (PLM) is formed in France by amalgamation of the Chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) and the Chemin de fer de Paris à Lyon (PL) companies.

May events

• May 7 - Formal opening of Midland Railway Leicester–Hitchin line, England.

June events

• June 4 - The first central connection to the Mississippi River is made when the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad connects Cincinnati, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri.
• June 11 - Norwegian railway director Carl Abraham Pihl is demanded by a Royal Decree to instruct a terrain investigation of the area along the river Drammenselva from Drammen to Randsfjorden.^[3]
• June 28 - The Lewisham rail crash (1857) in England kills 11 people.

August events

• August 30 - Opening of first railway in Argentina, from Buenos Aires to the suburb of Floresta (10 km (6.2 mi) of 5 ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge).^[4]

October events

• October - Charles Moran succeeds Homer Ramdell as president of the Erie Railroad.^[5]
• October 12 - Completion of the Milan–Venice railway in Italy with opening of the section between Bergamo and Treviglio, following inauguration of the bridge over the Oglio at Palazzolo.^[6]

December events

• December 15 - George S. Griggs is awarded U.S. Patent 18,883 for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird.

Unknown date events

• Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works.
• Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad.
• The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars.
• Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in U.S.
• Locomotion No. 1 is placed on display in Darlington, England, the first historic steam locomotive to be publicly preserved.
• The first rails made from steel were made by Robert Forester Mushet early in 1857, and were laid experimentally at Derby railway station on the Midland Railway in England. The rails proved far more durable than the iron rails they replaced and remained in use until 1873.^[7][8]

Births

January births

• January 31 - George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902-1922 (d. 1933).^[9]

November births

• November 17 - William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 (d. 1940).^[10][11]

Deaths

Unknown Date Deaths

• Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794).

April deaths

• April 20 - George Hennet, English railway contractor (b. 1799).^[12]

References

• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.

1. "An Act to Incorporate the Central Pacific Railroad Company". The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. 1858. Retrieved May 18, 2006.
2. Morris, J. C., ed. (December 31, 1902). Ohio Railway Report: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
3. Berntsen, Ulf; Lund, Thure; Lunner, Dagfinn (1997). På sporet med Krøderkippen (in Norwegian). Norwegian Railway Club / Krøderen Line Foundation. p. 27. ISBN 82-90286-20-1.
4. Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.
5. "Erie Railroad presidents". Retrieved March 15, 2005.
6. "Chronological overview of the opening of railway lines from 1839 to 31 December 1926" (in Italian). Trenidicarta.it. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
7. The Guinness Book of Rail Facts & Feats, Marshall John (1979), ISBN 0-900424-56-7
8. fweb.org
9. Rogers, H. C. B. (1975). G. J. Churchward: a locomotive biography. London: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-385069-3.
10. "W. B. Storey Dies". New York Times. October 30, 1940. Retrieved August 19, 2005.
11. Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 43–44.
12. Kay, Peter (1991). Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history. Sheffield: Platform 5. ISBN 1-872524-42-7.