1885, 1886, 1887

Years in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1886.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 February events 1.2 March events 1.3 May events 1.4 July events 1.5 August events 1.6 September events 1.7 October events 1.8 November events 1.9 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 May births 2.2 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 3.1 July deaths 3.2 December deaths 3.3 Unknown date deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] February events

• February 1 - The Mersey Railway opened to public traffic between Birkenhead and Liverpool by tunnel beneath the River Mersey, England.^[1]

[edit] March events

• March 30 - Executives from several railroad companies operating in the southern United States meet and agree to all regauge their railroads to standard gauge, 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+¹⁄₂ in), by June 1.^[2]

[edit] May events

• May - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway takes control of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.

[edit] July events

• July 8 - Russian emperor Alexander III establishes Railway Worker Day as a national holiday on the anniversary of the name day of Nikolai I, who first commissioned Russian railroad construction.^[3]

[edit] August events

• August 17 - The 7 mile (11.3 km) long Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad is incorporated in Ottawa County, Ohio.

[edit] September events

• September 1 – Regular traffic (initially freight only) begins to pass through the Great Western Railway’s Severn Tunnel linking southern Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.^[4]
• September 9 – The rail connection to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, is completed by a predecessor of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway.

[edit] October events

• October 18 - Between 5:00 AM and 6:00 PM, the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, a predecessor of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, converts 418 miles (673 km) of track from narrow gauge to standard gauge.

[edit] November events

• November 20 - The San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway is incorporated as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad subsidiary to build a rail connection between its namesake cities in California.^[5]

[edit] Unknown date events

• The first refrigerator cars on the Southern Pacific Railroad enter operation.
• The Southern Pacific Railroad wins the landmark Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad which establishes equal rights under the law to corporations.

[edit] Births

[edit] May births

• May 4 - Henry G. Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (d. 1976).

[edit] Unknown date births

• W. Graham Claytor, president of Southern Railway (US) (d. 1971).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] July deaths

• July 24 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (b. 1809).^[6]

[edit] December deaths

• December 28 - William Kimmel, director for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (b. 1812).

[edit] Unknown date deaths

• David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (b. 1810).

[edit] References

• Clowes, J. A.; Railways of Canada Archives (1999), Eastern New Brunswick's Railway History. Retrieved September 8, 2005.
• Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31, 1902), Annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs; Part II, history of the railroads of Ohio. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: October. Retrieved October 18, 2005.
• Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

1. ^ Gahan, John W. (1983). The Line Beneath the Liners – a hundred years of Mersey Railway sights and sounds. Birkenhead: Countyvise. ISBN 0-907768-40-7. 
2. ^ Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society. "This month in railroad history: March". http://avenue.org/nrhs/histmar.htm. Retrieved 29 March 2006. 
3. ^ "Railway Worker Day marked in Russia". ITAR-TASS. 2006-08-06. http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10684207&PageNum=0. Retrieved 2006-08-07. 
4. ^ "The Severn Tunnel". Severn Tales. http://www.severntales.co.uk/tunnel.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-01. 
5. ^ Serpico, Philip C. (1988). Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications. pp. 23–24. ISBN 0-88418-000-X. 
6. ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.