1842 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1842.

Events

January events

• January 2 - Commencement of operation of the Railway Clearing House in London, established to settle the division of payments for through traffic over different railways in Britain.¹

March events

• March 31 - The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway opens to Oldham Werneth railway station in northwest England.

April events

• April 11 - The French government enacts the Loi relative à l'établissement des grandes lignes de chemins de fer which establishes the plan for French railroads' placement in a star pattern centered around Paris.

May events

• May 8 - A passenger train traveling between Paris and Versailles derails near Moudon and catches fire, killing 55 people.

June events

• June 13 - Queen Victoria makes the first rail journey by a reigning monarch, on the Great Western Railway of England (Slough to Paddington).²

December events

• December - William Maxwell succeeds James Bowen as president of the Erie Railroad.³

Births

October births

• October 12 - Robert Gillespie Reid, builder of many Canadian railway bridges as well as the Newfoundland Railway (d. 1908).

December births

• December 7 - George Whale, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1903–1909 (d. 1910).

Unknown date births

• George Frederick Baer, president of Reading Company (d. 1914).
• Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (d. 1914).⁴

Deaths

References

1. ^ Bagwell, Philip S. (1968). The Railway Clearing House in the British Economy 1842-1922. London: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-331037-0. 
2. ^ Body, Geoffrey (1985). Western Handbook – a digest of GWR and WR data. Weston-super-Mare: British Rail (Western). ISBN 0-905466-70-5. 
3. ^ Stratton, Fred. "Erie Railroad presidents". Retrieved on 2005-03-02.
4. ^ Indiana Historical Society. "Melville E. Ingalls: Biographical sketch". Retrieved on 2005-02-15.