1845 in rail transport

Template:Short description Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1845.

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Events

March events

• March 19 – Boston and Maine Railroad Extension, which was incorporated a dispute with the Boston and Lowell Railroad over trackage rights rates in Massachusetts, is merged into Boston and Maine Railroad.

July events

• July – James Hooper succeeds Eleazer Lord as president of the Erie Railroad.
• July 1 – Boston and Maine Railroad opens the extension over the former Boston and Maine Railroad Extension line between Wilmington and Boston.
• July 21 – An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament having sanctioned Template:Convert of new construction.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

August events

• August – Benjamin Loder succeeds James Hooper as president of the Erie Railroad.

October events

• October 8 – The Montour Iron Works of Danville rolled the first iron T-rails in Pennsylvania.<ref>Explore Pennsylvania History, accessed July 2021.</ref>
• October 22 – First section of the Württemberg Central Railway opens, between Cannstatt und Untertürkheim.

Unknown date events

• William Swinburne, shop foreman for Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, leaves Rogers to form his own locomotive manufacturing company, Swinburne, Smith and Company.
• Walter McQueen becomes chief mechanical engineer for the Hudson River Railroad.

Births

June births

• June 24 – Georges Nagelmackers, Belgian founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company known for the Orient Express trains (d. 1905).

September births

• September 17 – Calvin S. Brice, president of Lake Erie and Western Railroad, builder of Nickel Plate Road (d. 1898).<ref>Template:CongBio</ref>

November births

• November 18 – Edwin Winter, president of Northern Pacific Railway in 1868 and Brooklyn Rapid Transit beginning in 1902 (d. 1930).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Deaths

January deaths

• January 14 – William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company express, first person to send an express shipment by rail (b. 1812).

References

• Erie Railroad presidents. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: March. Retrieved March 30, 2005.
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