1840 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1840.
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Events
July events
- July 20 - The world's first excursion train is run by the Midland Counties Railway to allow members of the Nottingham Mechanics' Institute to visit an exhibition being held in Leicester.
Unknown date events
- The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad completes construction in North Carolina.
Births
January births
- January 8 - William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway 1877-1902 (d. 1905).
- January 29 - Henry H. Rogers, American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway (d. 1909).
February births
- February 7 - Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (d. 1919).
June births
- June 6 - William Dudley Chipley, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873-1876 (d. 1897).
- June 16 - William F. Nast, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway September 1868.
- June 27 - Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884-1909, is born (d. 1916).[1]
August births
- August 25 - George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (d. 1893).
November births
- November 24 - Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H. K. Porter, Inc (d. 1921).
Deaths
References
- Fordyce, Jim (1999), Samuel W. Fordyce. Retrieved August 15 2005.
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
- ^ Alpheus Beede Stickney. Retrieved February 8 2006.
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