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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1847.
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Events
February events
- February 26 – The Somerville and Easton Railroad, a predecessor of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, is chartered.
March events
- March 9 – The Richmond and Danville Railroad is chartered in Virginia.
- March 15 – The Amiens-Boulogne line in France opens between Abbeville and Étaples.[1]
- March 16 – The Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opens between Shipley and Keighley in West Yorkshire, England.[2]
April events
- April 19 – The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central Railroad, officially changes its name to Albany and Schenectady Railroad.
May events
- May 24 – The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, England, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities.[3]
- May 31 – The first railway connection between Rotterdam and The Hague opens in the Netherlands.[4]
June events
- June – The first Bradshaws Continental Railway Guide timetable is published by George Bradshaw in England.
- June 26 – Opening of first railway wholly within modern-day Denmark, from Copenhagen to Roskilde.[5]
July events
- July 9 – The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is incorporated as an amalgamation of several important railway lines in Northern England.[6]
August events
- August 9 – Opening of first railway wholly within Switzerland, from Zürich to Baden.[5]
December events
- December 1 – The London and North Western Railway opens its Trent Valley Line to give a more direct route for the West Coast Main Line to North West England, bypassing Birmingham.[7]
Unknown date events
- John Urpeth Rastrick retires from Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.[8]
Births
October births
- October 6 - Webb C. Ball, watchmaker who introduced the first truly reliable and accurate timepieces on American railroads.
Deaths
References
- ^ 15 mars dans les chemins de fer (French) (2007-02-16). Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
- ^ Bairstow, Martin (2004). Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1-871944-28-7.
- ^ Lewis, Peter R. (2007). Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-4266-2.
- ^ BrainyMedia.com (2005). Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens. Retrieved on 2005-05-27.
- ^ a b Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.
- ^ Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4352-1.
- ^ Clinker, C. R.. Railways of the West Midlands – a chronology, 1808-1954. London: Stephenson Locomotive Society.
- ^ Bedwell, Carolyn (2002). John Urpeth Rastrick. Retrieved on 2005-04-04.
