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October 19

Timetable from Bradshaw's 1850 edition

1839 – George Bradshaw publishes the world's first railway timetable (1850 timetable pictured) in Manchester, England.
1878 – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II, designer of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Thomas Viaduct (still in use today), dies (b. 1806).
1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company, dies (b. 1831).
1992 – H. Reid, prominent railroad photographer and historian, dies (b. 1925).

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