1861 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1861.

[edit] Events

[edit] February events

• February 22 - Passenger service begins on Strasburg Rail Road with a visit from Abraham Lincoln.

[edit] April events

• April - Nathaniel Marsh succeeds Samuel Marsh as president of the Erie Railroad.^[1]

[edit] May events

• May 13 - Line opened between Karachi and Kochi (169 km (105 mi)) on 5ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge, the first railway in present-day Pakistan.^[2]

[edit] June events

• June 16 - Battle of Vienna, Virginia, is the first time in history a railroad was used tactically in battle.

[edit] Unknown date events

• Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company in Berwick, Pennsylvania, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, begins manufacturing railroad infrastructure parts.

[edit] Births

[edit] January births

• January 28 - Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1910-1941 (d. 1942).

[edit] April births

• April 26 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (d. 1919).

[edit] November births

• November 2 - Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892–1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902–1912, Director of the London and North Eastern Railway 1912–1945 (d. 1946).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• (January 16 2005), Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior officers. Retrieved February 10 2005.

1. ^ Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved on 2005-03-15.
2. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.