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1850 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1850.

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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 first one in South America - between Caldera and Monte Amargo was inaugurated on July 4 of 1850 in honour of the nationality of William Wheelwright, the American business man 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.

    • October events

  • October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened.

    • 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.
  • November 20 – The first train operates on the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Milwaukee Road.

    • 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.

    • 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, is born (d. 1934)

    • July deaths

  • July 7 – Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1786).

    • References

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