1850 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1850.
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Events
January events
- January – Maine Central Railroad predecessor Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad is completed between Auburn, Maine and Waterville, Maine.
May events
- May 13 – The Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft opens the Rostock-Bützow-Bad Kleinen and Güstrow-Bützow railway lines in northern Germany.
July events
- July 1 – Joseph Hamilton Beattie succeeds John Viret Gooch as locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway.
- July 4 – Chile: The first section of the Copiapó-Caldera railway line – the second in South America – between Caldera and Monte Amargo is inaugurated today in honour of the nationality of William Wheelwright, the American businessman responsible for the project.
August events
- August 29 – Robert Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England is opened by Queen Victoria.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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September events
- September 20 – The land grant for construction of the Illinois Central Railroad, the first railroad land grant in the United States,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is approved.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October events
- October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November events
- November 19 – Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- November 20 – The first train operates on the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Milwaukee Road.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Unknown date events
- The Richmond and Danville Railroad begins operation in Virginia.
- Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, the Panama Railway.
Births
February births
- February 27 – Henry Huntington, nephew of Collis P. Huntington and executive in charge of Pacific Electric in the early part of the 20th century (d. 1927).
November births
- November 19 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913–1920 (d. 1934).<ref>Northern Pacific. Annual Report. St. Paul [Minn.]: Northern Pacific, 1934, p. 17.</ref><ref>Railway Age, September 29, 1934, p. 390.</ref><ref name="1922 bio">Template:Cite book</ref>
Deaths
July deaths
- July 7 – Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1786).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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