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1852 in rail transport
Events
March events
March â With French government support, the
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris àOrléans
absorbs the Compagnie du Centre; the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Tours àNantes; and the Compagnie du chemin de fer d'Orléans àBordeaux.
June events
June 17 â The
Somerset Central Railway
in
England
is authorized.
July events
July 19 âÂÂ
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
's
Chepstow Railway Bridge
is opened to traffic, completing the
South Wales Railway
throughout from
Gloucester
(
England
) to
Swansea
.
October events
October 1 â The
Great Western Railway
's
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
in England is completed throughout from
Banbury
to
Birmingham Snow Hill
as a
dual gauge
line.
October 10 â The first revenue trains operate over the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, an early predecessor of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
, between
Chicago
and
Joliet, Illinois
.
October 14 â Opening of
London King's Cross station
by the
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
.
November events
November 10 â The
Grand Trunk Railway Company
is incorporated in Canada to build a railway between
Toronto
and
Montreal
.
November 20 â The
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
line between
Erie, Pennsylvania
, and
Cleveland, Ohio
, opens.
December events
December 11 âÂÂ
Wilhelm Engerth
patent
s the
Engerth locomotive
, an early
articulated locomotive
.
December 12 â First section of
Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture
concession in Paris opens.
Unknown date events
ParisâÂÂBordeaux railway
in France opens from Bordeaux to
Angoulême
.
John Cooke
steps down from the superintendent position at
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
to partner with
Charles Danforth
in forming the new locomotive manufacturing company,
Danforth, Cooke and Company
in
Paterson, New Jersey
.
The first
2-6-0
steam locomotive
s are built.
Great Southern and Western Railway
of
Ireland
builds first locomotive at its
Inchicore Works
,
Dublin
.
John Edgar Thomson
becomes president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
.
Births
August events
August 16 âÂÂ
Charles Sanger Mellen
, president of
Northern Pacific Railway
1897âÂÂ1903 and
New Haven Railroad
beginning in 1903 (d. 1927).
Unknown date births
J. Elfreth Watkins
,
railroad
civil engineer
and first curator for the
Smithsonian Institution
's railroad artifacts including
John Bull
.
References