1868_in_rail_transport

1868 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1868.

Events

May - The Denver Pacific Railway is formed to build a railroad connection between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

August 20 - Abergele train disaster in North Wales: a London and North Western Railway Irish Mail passenger train on the Chester and Holyhead line collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin leaving 33 dead, the greatest toll up to this date in any British railway accident.^[3]

Leland Stanford succeeds Timothy Guy Phelps as President of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 6, 2005.
Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.

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