1860 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1860.

Events

February 1 – Stockholders and officials take an inaugural ride on the first Staten Island Railway line between Vanderbilt's Landing and Eltingville.;^[1]

April 23 – The Staten Island Railway starts operations in Staten Island, New York; this is now the oldest rapid transit right-of-way in New York City, but is operated separately from the New York City Subway.^[1]

May 7 – The Bavarian State Railway opens connecting Rosenheim, Prien and Traunstein.
May 14 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Annadale.^[2]
May 15 – New Brunswick issues the first postage stamps to depict a locomotive.^[3]

June 2 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Tottenville.^[1]^[4]
June 26 – Opening of first railway in Southern Africa, the Natal Railway from Durban to The Point in the Colony of Natal (3 km (1.9 mi) of standard gauge).^[5]^{[page needed]}

July 2 – Cessation of operation as an atmospheric railway of the Bois de Vésinet–Saint-Germain-en-Laye section of the Paris–Saint-Germain line, the last surviving atmospheric working.^[6]
July 19 – The London and South Western Railway extension to Exeter opens.

August 17 – The Oil Creek Railroad is chartered by railroad investor Thomas Struthers of Warren, Pennsylvania, and several other Warren businessmen.
August 25 – The Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII, presides over the opening ceremonies for the Victoria Railway Bridge near Montreal, Province of Canada.
August 30 – The predecessor to Birkenhead Corporation Tramways opens the first street-running horsecar town tramway in Europe.^[7]

September 17 – The Atchison and Topeka Railroad, chartered on February 11, 1859, and predecessor to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, is organized.

November 16 – The Atherstone rail accident in England kills 10 Irish cattle drovers.

January 3 – Henry Clay Hall, commissioner for Interstate Commerce Commission beginning in 1914, chairman of same 1917–1928 (died 1936).

December 6 – Howard Elliott, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1903–1913 and New Haven Railroad beginning in 1913^[10] (died 1928)

March 14 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway (born 1802).

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved August 25, 2005.
Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.

^ ^a ^b ^c Roess, Roger P.; Sansome, Gene (2013). The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System. Springer. pp. 223–247. ISBN 978-3-642-30484-2. Retrieved 4 October 2015 – via Google Books.
^ Leigh, Irvin; Matus, Paul (January 2002). "Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History". thethirdrail.net. The Third Rail Online. Archived from the original on 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2015-06-27.
^ 1 c. Angus, F. F. (January 1969). "Railway Trains on Canada's Stamps". Canadian Rail (209). Canadian Railroad Historical Society: 20–22.
^ Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.
^ Hadfield, Charles (1967). Atmospheric Railways. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-4107-0.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Robbins, Michael (1967). Points and Signals. London: George Allen & Unwin.
^ Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85112-707-1.
^ Railway Age Gazette (August 1, 1913) pp. 177–8.