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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1848.

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February events

  • February 15 - The Caledonian Railway is opened throughout between Edinburgh, Carstairs and Carlisle, completing a through rail route by the West Coast Main Line and providing the first service of through carriages between Scotland and England.
  • February 18 - The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is chartered in Ohio.

    • April events

  • April 3 - The Joseph Valley Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is chartered in Michigan.

    • June events

  • June 12 – Bristol and Exeter Railway's Tiverton branch line opens.

    • July events

  • July 11 - London Waterloo station opens.
  • July 20 - Grand Trunk Railway predecessor Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad opens.

    • September events

  • September 10 - Use of the atmospheric system on Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Devon Railway (England) ceases after less than a year of operation.

    • October events

  • October 2 - The Skipton to Colne section of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opened.
  • October 28 - The first railway in Spain, connecting Barcelona and Mataró, opens.

    • November events

  • November 1 - First W H Smith bookstall at a railway station opens, at Euston Station, in London.
  • November 3 - The first railway in South America opens, from Georgetown to Plaisance (8 km (5.0 mi)) in British Guiana.

    • December events

  • December - The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest part of what is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway, begins operation.

    • Unknown date events

  • Tredegar Iron Works (Richmond, Virginia) manager Joseph R. Anderson becomes the owner of the company.
  • Wien Westbahnhof, the terminal of Austrian Western Railway in Vienna, Austria, opens.

    • February births

  • February 20 - E. H. Harriman, executive in charge of both the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad at the start of the 20th century (died 1909).

    • Unknown date births

  • Alfred de Glehn, English-born designer of French steam locomotives (died 1936).
  • Alonzo C. Mather, founder of Mather Stock Car Company, designer of first widely recognized humane stock car (died 1941).

    • August deaths

  • August 12 - George Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder (born 1781).

    • References

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