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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1849.

Events

February events

• February 20 - The Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad (which eventually was absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) is chartered in Ohio to build a railroad from Portsmouth through Piketon and Chillicothe to Lancaster.¹

March events

• March 3 - The Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, is chartered in Missouri.²
• March 24 - The Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad, which eventually became the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway after a foreclosure sale, is chartered in Pennsylvania.³
• March - The governments of India and England form the first agreements of the Old Guarantee System providing land grants to English companies for railroad construction in India.⁴

August events

• August 15 - Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Newcastle upon Tyne, England is opened permanently for rail traffic.⁵
• August 17 - The Old Guarantee System providing land grants to English companies for railroad construction in India is finalised.

November events

• November 1 - The Caledonian Railway is opened throughout between Glasgow, Carstairs and Carlisle, completing a through rail route by the West Coast Main Line and providing the first service of through carriages between Scotland and England.⁶

Unknown date events

• Train ferry PS Leviathan, designed by Thomas Grainger for the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway, enters service carrying freight cars across the Forth estuary in Scotland between Granton and Burntisland.⁷

Births

October births

• October 17 - Sir William Mackenzie, part-owner of the Toronto Street Railway, builder of Canadian Northern Railway predecessors (d. 1923).

December births

• December 12 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, heir to Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1920).

Deaths

References

1. ^ Morris, J. C.; Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, Ohio (December 31, 1902), Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs: Part II, History of the Railroads of Ohio. Retrieved February 20, 2006.
2. ^ "100 Years of Service" (1960). Retrieved on 2006-04-20.
3. ^ 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 March 24, 2006.
4. ^ Indian Railways Fan Club, IR History: Early Days - I. Retrieved August 16, 2005.
5. ^ Addyman, John; Fawcett, Bill (1999). The High Level Bridge and Newcastle Central Station – 150 years across the Tyne, North Eastern Railway Association. ISBN 1-873513-28-3. 
6. ^ Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-049-7. 
7. ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness. ISBN 0-85112-359-7.