Years in rail transport
Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1865.

Events

January events

February events

March events

April events

May events

June events

August events

  • August 7 – The Lawrence Railroad and Transportation Company, with tracks in Pennsylvania and Ohio, is reorganized as the Lawrence Railroad Company.[9]

September events

October events

December events

Unknown date events

Births

March births

October births

Deaths

Unknown date deaths

  • William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (b. 1786).

References

  1. Johnson, Peter (2007). An Illustrated History of the Festiniog Railway 1832–1954. Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-86093-603-9.
  2. Westwood, John (1980). Railways at War. Howell-North Books. p. 29. ISBN 0-8310-7138-9.
  3. Morris, J. C., Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (December 31, 1902). Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved 2006-02-04.
  4. "Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company". Mid-Continent Railway Museum. 2006-04-11. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-16.
  5. Boyd, J. I. C. (1988). The Tal-y-Llyn Railway. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications. p. 45. ISBN 0-906867-46-0.
  6. Barnett, Leroy (July–August 2004). "Making America's First Steel in Wyandotte". Michigan History. 88 (4).
  7. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin July 1965 pp. 121–136.
  8. Lee, Robert (2003). "Potential railway world heritage sites in Asia and the Pacific". Institute of Railway Studies, University of York. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  9. Morris, J. C., compiler (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II. History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved 2005-08-07.
  10. Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history Archived 2006-04-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2005-09-13.
  11. Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.
  12. Westwood, John (1980). Railways at War. Howell-North Books. p. 91. ISBN 0-8310-7138-9.
  13. Lane, Harold Francis, ed. (1913). The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America (1913 ed.). New York: Simmons-Boardman. p. 588.

Further reading

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