This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1860.
February 1 – Stockholders and officials take an inaugural ride on the first Staten Island Railway line between Vanderbilt's Landing and Eltingville.;
April 23 - The Staten Island Railway starts operations in Staten Island, New York; this is now the oldest rapid transit right-of-way in New York City, but is operated separately from the New York City Subway.
May 7 - The Bavarian State Railway opens connecting Rosenheim, Prien and Traunstein.
May 14 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Annadale.
June 2 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Tottenville.
June 26 - Opening of first railway in Southern Africa, the Natal Railway from Durban to The Point in the Colony of Natal (3 km (1.9 mi) of standard gauge).
July 2 - Cessation of operation as an atmospheric railway of the Bois de Vésinet–Saint-Germain-en-Laye section of the Paris–Saint-Germain line, the last surviving atmospheric working.
July 19 – The London and South Western Railway extension to Exeter opens.
August 17 – The Oil Creek Railroad is chartered by railroad investor Thomas Struthers of Warren, Pennsylvania, and several other Warren businessmen.
August 25 - The Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII, presides over the opening ceremonies for the Victoria Railway Bridge near Montreal, Province of Canada.
September 17 - The Atchison and Topeka Railroad, chartered on February 11, 1859, and predecessor to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is organized.
October (approx.) - Installation of the first water troughs for steam locomotives to pick up water at speed, by the London and North Western Railway at Mochdre, Conwy, on its North Wales Coast (or Chester and Holyhead) line.
October 26 - The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn in Germany opens between Bochum Hauptbahnhof and Witten.
November 16 - The Atherstone rail accident in England killed 10 Irish cattle drovers.
The first 2-6-0s with leading trucks are built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Kingston Locomotive Works, predecessor of the Canadian Locomotive Company, declares bankruptcy.
January 3 – Henry Clay Hall, commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917-1928 (died 1936).
December 6 – Howard Elliott, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1903-1913 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1913, is born.
September 18 - Joseph Locke, construction engineer of Stockton and Darlington Railway and Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer of Grand Junction Railway (b. 1805).
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