1867 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1867.
Events
February events
- February 16 â The São Paulo Railway in Brazil is opened, including an incline system on the Serra do Mar.[1]
April events
- April 18 â Bristol and Exeter Railway's Portishead branch, built by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company, opens.
May events
- May 7 â The Windsor and Annapolis Railway is incorporated in Nova Scotia.[2]
June events
- June 29 â The Warrington rail crash in England kills 8 people.
August events
- August 10 â The first railway in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) (and the first in Asia outside the Indian subcontinent) opens between Semarang and Tanggun in central Java (25 kilometres (16 mi).[3]
- August 21 â The rack railway at Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, opens between Rockhampton and Westwood via Kabra.[4]
- August 24 â Opening of railway over the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy.[5][page needed]
- August 27 â J. Nason and J. F. Wilson, both of Boston, Massachusetts, are awarded the first U.S. patent covering level crossing gates.[6]
September events
- September 4 â The Boston and Albany Railroad is formed through the merger of four smaller railroads in New England.
October events
- October â John S. Eldridge succeeds Robert H. Berdell as president of the Erie Railroad.[7]
November events
- November 19 â The Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company incorporated.
December events
- December 1 â Skjærdalen and Tyristrand are connected on the Randsfjorden Line in Norway.
- December 9 â The Lyttelton rail tunnel in New Zealand of 2595m between Christchurch and the port of Lyttelton is opened.
- December 18 â The 'Angola Horror' train wreck kills 49 people near Angola, New York when the last coach of a Lake Shore train derails and plunges down a gulley.
Unknown date events
- Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires control of the New York Central railroad.
- The Lehigh Valley Railroad places the first 2-10-0 steam locomotives in the world into use.
- Construction on the Union Pacific Railroad reaches Cheyenne, Wyoming.[8]
- An early form of dome car is introduced in Russia.[9]
- Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railway reaches Salina, Kansas.
Births
Unknown date births
- Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1920â1937 (d. 1939).[10]
Deaths
January deaths
- January 5 â William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (b. 1802).
February deaths
- February 7 â William Dargan, Irish railway contractor (b. 1799).[11]
June deaths
- June 13 - Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (b. 1789).