Years in rail transport
Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1893.

Events

January events

February events

  • February 4 – Official opening of main section of Liverpool Overhead Railway, the first electrified suburban line in Britain, and the first (third rail) electrified overhead railway in the world.
  • February 23 – Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

March events

April events

May events

June events

July events

August events

September events

October events

November events

Galera railway station – world's highest in 1893
  • November 14 – The Central Railway of Peru opens the section of line from Chicla across the Andes watershed to Oroya, with a summit level at Galera of 4781 m (15,686 feet) above sea level.[9]

December events

Unknown date events

Births

November births

Deaths

January deaths

March deaths

June deaths

December deaths

Unknown date deaths

References

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  • Continental engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
  • Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
  • White, John H. Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
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  8. Busbey, T. Addison, ed. (1896). The Biographical Directory of Railway Officials of America, Edition of 1896. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader. p. 244.
  9. Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.
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