Years in rail transport
Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1861.

Events

February events

April events

May events

  • May 13 – Line opened between Karachi and Kochi (169 km (105 mi)) on 5 ft 6in (1676 mm) gauge, the first railway in modern-day Pakistan.[2]
"Locomotives Dismantled By the Rebels at Martinsburg, Virginia" in Harper's Weekly August 1861

June events

  • June 16 – Battle of Vienna, Virginia, is the first time in history a railroad is used tactically in battle.
  • June – Opening of first section of rail line in Paraguay, under the auspices of Presidente Carlos Antonio López, with mainly British engineering, 4 km (2.5 mi) from Asunción to Trinidad on the Iberian gauge of 1,672 mm (5 ft 5+1316 in).[3] Regular services to Paraguarí begin on September 21 and on December 25 the line is extended to the city of Luque.[4]

July events

August events

September events

December events

Unknown date events

Accidents

Births

January births

April births

June births

November births

Deaths

October deaths

References

  1. "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on 18 March 2005. Retrieved 2005-03-15.
  2. Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.
  3. Williams, Glyn (2006–2008). "Railways in Paraguay". Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  4. El Semanario.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Westwood, John (1980). Railways at War. Howell-North Books. p. 29. ISBN 0-8310-7138-9.
  6. Pitanza, Marc (2015). Staten Island Rapid Transit Images of Rail. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4671-2338-9.
  7. 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.
  8. Leigh, Irvin; Matus, Paul (January 2002). "Staten Island Rapid Transit: The Essential History". thethirdrail.net. The Third Rail Online. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  9. Williams, Glyn (2004–2014). "Railways in Latvia". Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  10. 1 2 Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.
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