1839, 1840, 1841

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1840.

Events

May events

• May 11 – The London and South Western Railway opens its original main line throughout to Southampton (England).^[1]

August events

• 12 August – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Ayr.
• 17 August – The first railroad built in Milan, Italy, the Milan and Monza Rail Road opens for service.

October events

• October 9 – Formal opening of first section of the Taff Vale Railway, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, from Cardiff Docks to Navigation House (Abercynon).^[2]

Unknown date events

• The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad completes construction in North Carolina.
• Mordecai W. Jackson and George Mack partner to create a farm implement manufacturing company that would eventually become Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company.^[3][4]

Births

January births

• January 8 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway of England 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).^[5]

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.^[6]
• June 27 – Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1884-1909 (d. 1916).^[7]

August births

• August 23 – Brayton C. Ives, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1893-1896 (d. 1914).
• August 25 – George C. Magoun, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1880s (d. 1893).^[8]

November births

• November 24 – Henry Kirke Porter, American steam locomotive builder and founder of H. K. Porter, Inc (d. 1921).

Deaths

References

• Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.