1873 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1873.

Events

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January events

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March events

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April events

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  • April 2 – The first sleeping car is introduced in Britain, on Anglo-Scottish services.[5]
  • April 8 – Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway reopens its Dabhoi-Miyagam line (32 km of 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) narrow gauge) relaid with stronger rails allowing locomotives to replace oxen as motive power (although this is not done regularly until 1880). Later part of the Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway and Western Railway, the Dabhoi system is in continuous operation until gauge conversion in the early 21st century.[6]
  • April 29 – Eli H. Janney is awarded U.S. patent 138,405, Improvement in Car-Couplings (filed for on April 1) for his knuckle coupler design.[7]

May events

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A high point of Victorian architecture: G. G. Scott’s Midland Grand Hotel fronting London St Pancras station

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Unknown date events

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Deaths

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December deaths

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  • December 24 – Johns Hopkins, entrepreneur (b. 1795), died without heirs, leaving $7 million, mostly in Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stock, to establish his namesake institutions, the single largest philanthropic donation ever made to educational institutions at that time.

References

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  1. ^ West Virginia Division of Culture and History. "On This Day in West Virginia History..." West Virginia Archives & History. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  2. ^ Bommer, Edward. "Staten Island Rapid Transit". Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  3. ^ Preston, L. E. (1887). History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York: From Its Discovery to the Present Time, Part 1. Memorial Publishing Company.
  4. ^ Fox, Brendan (September 2009). "Thomas Cook Timetables–Covering the World" (PDF). Japan Railway & Transport Review. 53. East Japan Railway Culture Foundation: 18–23. ISSN 1342-7512. Retrieved 17 February 2012.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 295–296. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. ^ Saxena, R. P. (2008). "Indian Railway History Time Line". Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  7. ^ "Link and Pin Couplers". CPRR.org. 2004. Archived from the original on 15 April 2005. Retrieved 2005-03-31.
  8. ^ Jackson, Alan A. (1985). London's Termini (2nd ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-8634-4.
  9. ^ a b "San Francisco Cable Car History". Rising Sun Publications. 2003. Archived from the original on 16 July 2005. Retrieved 2005-08-02.
  10. ^ Boyd, James I. C. (1977). The Isle of Man Railway (4th ed.). Tarrant Hinton: Oakwood Press.
  11. ^ Davis, J. J. (February 1959). "The Railways of Monmouth". Railway Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 September 2005. Retrieved 2005-08-04.
  12. ^ Smith, Ivan (1998). "Significant Dates in Nova Scotia's Railway History (1850–1899)". Railways of Canada Archives. Archived from the original on 2005-03-01. Retrieved 2005-09-22.
  13. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.
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