1870 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1870.

Events

January 20 – The Elizabeth City and Norfolk Railroad, which later becomes the original Norfolk Southern Railroad, is chartered to build a railroad line between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

March 7 – Great Indian Peninsula Railway completes link between Itarsi and Jabalpur where it connects with the East Indian Railway, completing the rail connection from Bombay to Calcutta.[1]
March 24 – Pennsylvania Railroad signs a 999-year lease of the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.[2]
March 28 – Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railway reaches Kit Carson, Colorado.[3]

June – The Denver Pacific Railway completes construction of its mainline between Denver, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

July 24 – The first railroad car to travel the entire distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of the United States arrives in New York City.

August
- Construction crews on the Kansas Pacific working eastward from Denver and westward from Kansas City meet at Strasburg, Colorado.
- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Topeka, reaches Emporia, Kansas.
August 2
- The Texas legislature approves the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) charter, which was originally granted by Kansas, allowing the MKT to build into the state.
- Official opening of the Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London. Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead[4] and of a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments.[5]
August 15 - Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, building westward from Kansas, reaches Denver, Colorado.

September 12 [O.S. August 30] 1870 – Russian emperor Alexander II inaugurates through services between Saint Petersburg and Helsinki (Finnish Railways).
September 12 – Completion of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad from Portland, Maine to Sebago Lake causes abandonment of the parallel Cumberland and Oxford Canal.[6]

Ginery Twichell, about the time he was president of the Santa Fe

October 12 – The Southern Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad operations are merged under the Southern Pacific name.[7]
October 24 – First railway in the Governorate of Estonia is opened on the route Paldiski–Reval (Tallinn)–Narva–Gatchina. It is connected with the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw railway in the same year. Also this year, the line is extended from Gatchina to Tosno, so connecting to the modern-day October Railway.[8]

July 29 – Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway 1909–1923 and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1925–1931 (d. 1938).

December 8 - Thomas Brassey, English railway contractor who supervised the construction of more than 6500 miles (10461 km) of track around the world (b. 1805).[10]
December 16 – Byron Kilbourn, president of Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad 1849–1852 (b. 1801).

George S. Griggs, pioneering master mechanic of American steam locomotives (b. 1805).

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Indian Railways Fan Club. "Chronology of Railways in India, Part 2". Retrieved 2008-03-02.
Corporate Genealogy: Erie & Pittsburgh Archived 2001-05-27 at archive.today. Retrieved March 24, 2006.
"County History: Cheyenne County, Colorado". Cogenweb. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
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West, Graham (2005). Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry. Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–118. ISBN 0-521-33512-4.
Johnson, Ron (n.d.). Maine Central R.R. Mountain Division. 470 Railroad Club. p. 14.
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