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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1876.
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Events
January events
- January 1 – The Bristol and Exeter Railway, in England, is amalgamated into the Great Western Railway.
February events
- February 1 – The South Devon Railway, in England, is amalgamated into the Great Western Railway.
March events
- March 1 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad reaches Pueblo, Colorado.[1]
May events
- May 1 – The Midland Railway's Settle-Carlisle line in England is opened to passenger traffic.[2]
July events
- July – First railroad in China, the Woosung Road (or Woosung Railway), begins operation, connecting Shanghai and Woosung (now Baoshan District). The 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge line was built by British interests (it was demolished in October 1877).[3][4]
October events
- October 16 – The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway officially changes its name to Miami Valley Railway.
September events
- September 1 – The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Miami Valley Railway is held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- September 5 – The first through train from San Francisco, California, arrives in Los Angeles, California, after travelling over the Southern Pacific Railroad's newly completed Tehachapi Loop.
December events
- December 4 – The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits is founded in Brussels.
- December 29 – Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States: The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The Pacific Express, collapses the Ashtabula River bridge dropping eleven passenger cars into a fire started by the car stoves. Of the 159 people onboard, 92 are killed and 64 injured, the worst train disaster in America to date.
Unknown date events
- Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Births
May births
- May 27 – William Stanier, Chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 (d. 1965).
June births
- June 19 – Nigel Gresley, Chief mechanical engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway 1923-1941 (d. 1941).[5]
Deaths
June deaths
- June 2 – Charles Beyer, German-British steam locomotive manufacturer, co-founder of Beyer-Peacock (b. 1813).[6]
References
- ^ Santa Fe Railroad (1945). Along Your Way. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally.
- ^ Gough, John (1989). The Midland Railway – a chronology. Gwernymynydd: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-12-1.
- ^ "The Woosung "Road"". Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ Pong, David (1973). "Confucian Patriotism and the Destruction of the Woosung Railway, 1877". Modern Asian Studies 7: 647–76.
- ^ "Sir Nigel Gresley" (December 9, 2004). Retrieved on 2005-02-09.
- ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.
