1836 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1836.
Events
January events
- January 16 â The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the oldest portion of what is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway, is chartered.
February events
- February 5 â Henry R. Campbell of the Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad patents the first 4-4-0, a steam locomotive type that will soon become the most common on all railroads of the United States.[1]
- February 8 - London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England.[2]
March events
- March - The Syracuse and Utica Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad, is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in New York.
April events
- April â The first railroad car ferry in the U.S., the Susquehanna enters service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.[3][page needed]
May events
- May 5 â The Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered as the successor to the Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad in Massachusetts and eastern New York.
- May 19 â The Bristol and Exeter Railway receives parliamentary authorization.
July events
- July 13 â John Ruggles is awarded U.S. patent 1 for his improvements to railroad steam locomotive tires.[4]
- July 21 â The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad opens between St. John and La Prairie, Quebec, the first steam-worked passenger railroad in British North America.
August events
- August 1 â The Utica and Schenectady Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad in New York, opens.
- August 8 â Andover and Wilmington Railroad opens its line to Andover, Massachusetts.
September events
- September 5 â The Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad, the first steam railroad in Florida, opens.
October events
- The Louisa Railroad of Louisa County, Virginia, an early predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, begins construction.[5]
- October 25 â Construction begins on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad in North Carolina. Due to a lack of support in Raleigh, the route is revised to run from Wilmington to the Petersburg Railroad in Weldon.[6]
December events
- December 3 â Wetheral train accident: A passenger train on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in England is wrongly diverted into a siding at Wetheral railway station, derails and crushes three people to death.[7]
- December 14 â The London and Greenwich Railway opens throughout from London Bridge to Deptford.[8]
Unknown date events
Births
January births
- January 2 - Fred T. Perris, Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad (d. 1916).[9][10]
February births
- February 9 â Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1866â1883 (d. 1889).
March births
- March 16 â Andrew Smith Hallidie, who developed the first practical cable car system for San Francisco, California (d. 1900).[11]
May births
- May 21 â Francis William Webb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway (d. 1906).[12]
- May 27 - Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1892).
September births
- September 17 - William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (d. 1909).
Deaths
January deaths
- January 7 â John Molson, established the Champlain and Saint Lawrence Railroad, the first railway into Canada (b. 1763).