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Cathedral Bridge (Dombrücke), Cologne-Minden Railway Company, The first railway bridge over the Rhine north of Switzerland, first connection between western and central European rail network 1860 7 May Rosenheim Salzburg: Traunstein, 84 km, Royal Bavarian State Railways, Rosenheim–Salzburg line: 10 September Frankfurt am Main Bad Homburg
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There were railway hotels, coffee-houses, lodging-houses, boarding-houses; railway plans, maps, views, wrappers, bottles, sandwich-boxes and timetables; railway hackney coach and cabstands; railway omnibuses, railway streets and buildings, railway hangers-on and parasites, and flatterers out of all calculation.
In the first half of the 19th century, opinions about the emerging railways in Germany varied widely. While business-minded people like Friedrich Harkort and Friedrich List saw in the railway the possibility of stimulating the economy and overcoming the patronization of little states, and were already starting railway construction in the 1820s and early 1830s, others feared the fumes and smoke ...
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.
Railroads soon replaced many canals and turnpikes and by the 1870s had significantly displaced steamboats as well. [42] The railroads were superior to these alternative modes of transportation, particularly water routes because they lowered costs in two ways.
Lefranc, Georges. "The French Railroads, 1823–1842", Journal of Business and Economic History, II, 1929–30, 299–331. Le Henaff, Colonel, and Captain Bronecque. The French railroads and the war (1922) World War I online; Milward, Alan, and S.B. Saul. The Economic Development of Continental Europe 1780–1870 (1973) pp 335–43. Mitchell ...
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs of Ohio for the Year Ending June 30, 1882. Columbus, Ohio: Myers Brothers, State Printers. hdl:2027/uc1.b2896936. (April 3, 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved July 10, 2005. (July 5, 2005), Significant dates in Ottawa railway history. Retrieved July 18, 2005.