1837 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1837.
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[edit] Events
[edit] April events
- April 24 - The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn, the first major railway line to be built between important cities in Germany, begins passenger operations.
[edit] August events
- August 24 - Queen Marie Amélie and King Louis-Philippe officially open the Paris-Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway line.
[edit] October events
- October 30 - The first Russian railroad, between St. Petersburg and Zarskoje Selo with a length of 23 km (14 miles), opens. The locomotive for the new railway was built by Englishman Timothy Hackworth using a gauge of 1829 mm (6 ft). Because the track connected the pleasure sites of the nobility, it was called "the train to the pub."
[edit] Unknown date events
- Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor receives the company's first order for new steam locomotives; the order for two locomotives is placed by the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad and is intended to be the beginning of the railroad's locomotive fleet.
[edit] Births
[edit] April births
- April 17 - J. P. Morgan, American financier who helped to finance United States Steel Corporation (d. 1913).
[edit] May births
- May 23 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the mallet locomotive type (d. 1919).
[edit] September births
- September 26 - Allen Manvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1889–1893.
[edit] Unknown date births
- William Barstow Strong, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1881–1889 (d. 1914)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- Pearson Education (2005), William Barstow Strong. Retrieved June 2, 2005.
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. p. 196.
- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
