History Railways In The Worlds

In our everyday life turns of history to say that a train was already there since the era in which we are not familiar with the culture, here is the History of the railway in the world :

• 600 BC - A train basic form, rutway it, there was in the days of ancient Greece and Rome, the most important is Diolkos ship trackway across the Isthmus of Corinth. Measuring between 6 and 8.5 miles, left on a regular and frequent service for at least 650 years, and be open to all payments, it constituted even a public railway, a concept that Lewis did not happen until about 1800. The Diolkos reportedly used at least until the middle of the 1st century AD, after which no more written references appear.
• 1550 - Hand propelled tubs known as "hunds" must be in the surrounding provinces / form modern Germany in the mid 16th century that proved to have been used since the mid 15th century and perhaps earlier. This technology was brought to England by German miners who worked in the Mines Royal in various places in the UK Lake District near Keswick (now in Cumbria).
• 1603-1604 - Between October 1603 and the end of September 1604, Huntingdon Beaumont, partner landowners, Sir Percival Willoughby, built on land first recorded early train / wagonway. It was about two miles long, running from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton in Nottinghamshire, England. This is known as Wagonway Wollaton. Beaumont build three wagonways up soon after, near Blyth in Northumberland associated with coal and salt trade. Shortly after Wagonway Wollaton built near Broseley accounted wagonways Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. Further Wagonways appeared in North East England.
• 1798 - Lake Lock Rail Road, arguably the world's first public railway, opened in 1798 to transport coal from Outwood area to the Aire and Calder Navigation on Lake Lock.
• 1802 - The Carmarthenshire tramways, then Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway, which is located in the south west Wales, was established by an Act of Parliament.
• 1803 - The first public railway, Surrey Iron Railway, London.
• 1804 - The first steam railway locomotive - Penydarren - built by Richard Trevithick, used to transport iron from Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon, Wales.
• 1807 - The first fare-paying, passenger rail service in the world was founded in Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales. Later this became known as the Swansea and Mumbles Railway although the railway was better known as "The Mumbles Train" (Welsh: Trends Bach I'r Mwmbwls). Railroad safely use various forms of traction until 1960.
• 1808 - The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway was the first railway in Scotland authorized by Act of Parliament and the first in Scotland to use a steam locomotive.
• 1808 - Richard Trevithick made a "steam circus" (a circle with a steam train locomotive Catch Me Who Can) in London for a few months, for the public to experience for 1 shilling each.
• 1812 - The first commercial of a steam locomotive at Middleton Railway, Leeds
• 1813 - Wylam Waggonway: Steam loco "Puffing Billy" commence commercial operation. Designers William Hedley, blacksmith Timothy Hackworth. Ran for 50 years hauling coal.
• 1814 - George Stephenson build the first locomotive, Blucher.
• 1825 - Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public subscription, adhesion work using steam locomotive train, carrying goods from the Colliery to a river port (Passenger delivered by horse-drawn carriage).June 30, 1827 - the oldest railway in continental Europe was opened in France between Saint-Etienne and Andrezieux (horse carriage). Several tests have been run since May 1, 1827. The official opening ceremony on October 1, 1828 never really happened, this date was in fact the first fiscal year the railway company.
• July 4, 1828 - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B & O) began construction of the track. Charleston & Savannah started construction a few months later.
• 1829 - George and Robert Stephenson locomotive, Rocket, set a speed record of 47 km / h (29 mph) in the Rainhill Trials held near Liverpool.
• 1830 - The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway opened in Kent, England on 3 May, three months before the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Engineered by George Stephenson, 5 ¾ mile line runs from Canterbury to the small port and fishing town of Whitstable, about 55 miles east of London. Traction is provided by three Stationary Winding Machines, and "Invicta"; Invicta is 0-4-0 Loco, built by Stevenson, but only operated at the track level as he produces a little 9 hp.
• 1830 - The first railroad in the United States that opened with 23 miles of trails, with mostly wooden rails topped with iron. More than a hundred railroad incorporated in New York alone. Tom Thumb (locomotive) designed and built by Peter Cooper for B&O - the first American-built steam locomotive.
• 1830 - Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened, and the first steam passenger services, especially locomotive transported, began. Line proved the viability of rail transport, rail and large-scale construction began in England, and then spread throughout the world. The Railway Age began.
• 1831 - The first railway in Australia, for the Australian Agricultural Company, cast iron railway serving the gravity fishbelly A Pit coal mine.
• 1831 - The first passenger tickets issued in Canterbury season and Whitstable Railway.
• 1832 - Railway switch patented by Charles Fox.
• 1833 - The Great Western Railway Works, near Swindon, England, founded by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
• 1834 - The first railroad Ireland, Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D & KR) between Dublin and Kingstown open (now Dun Laoghaire), a distance of six miles.
• 1835 - In the Belgian railway was opened on May 5, between Brussels and Mechelen. It was the first railway in continental Europe.
• 1835, December 7 - Bavarian Ludwigsbahn, steam-powered railroad German first, opened to the public service between Nuremberg and Fürth.
• 1836, July 21 - The first public railway in Canada, Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, opened in Quebec with 16-mile run between La Prairie and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
• 1837 - The first railway line to connect with Bejucal Havana Cuba. In 1838 the line reached Guines. This is also the first railway in Latin America and the Iberian world in general.
• 1837 - Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company opened rail remotely German first, connecting with Althen close Wurzen Leipzig. In 1839 the line reached Dresden.
• 1837 - The first railway line to connect with Austria Vienna Wagram. In 1839 the line reached Brno.
• 1837 - The first rail line in Russia connected Tsarskoye Selo and Saint Petersburg.
• 1837 - The first line opened in France between Le Pecq near the former royal city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Embarcadère des Bâtignoles (later became the Gare Saint-Lazare)
• 1837 - Robert Davidson build the first electric locomotive
• 1838 - Edmondson railway ticket was introduced.
• 1839 - The first railway in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Italy, from Naples to Portici opened!
• 1839 - The first railway line in the Netherlands Amsterdam and Haarlem connected.
• 1844 - The first rail line built in Congress Poland between Warsaw and Pruszków.
• 1844 - The first Atmospheric Railway, the Dalkey Atmospheric Railway was opened for passenger service between Kingstown and Dalkey in Ireland. The line was 3 miles long & operated for 10 years.
• 1845 - The first railway line built in Jamaica was opened on November 21. Line ran 15 miles from Kingston to Spanish Town. It was also the first rail lines were built in one of the British West Indian colonies. The Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica led the opening ceremony, by the 1860s the line was extended 105 miles to Montego Bay.
• 1845 - Royal Commission on Railway meter gauge to choose between Stephenson and Brunel measure.
• 1846 - James McConnell met with George Stephenson and Archibald Slate in Bromsgrove. At this meeting that the idea of ​​the Institution of Mechanical Engineers appear.
• 1846 - The first railway line in Hungary, connecting Pest and Vác
• 1847 - First train in Switzerland, Limmat, the railway line Spanisch-brötli-Bahn.
• 1848 - The first railway in South America, British Guiana. This train is designed, surveyed and built by British-American architect and artist Frederick Catherwood. All railway stations, bridges, shops and other facilities built by John Bradshaw Sharples. Funding provided by the Sugar Company Demerera who want to transport their products Georgetown dock. Construction on the first section, from Georgetown to Plaisance, opened on November 3, 1848. The opening day celebration featuring the death of one of the directors by the train was hit by a locomotive.
• 1851 - The first train in Chile from Caldera to Copiapó (80 km).
• 1851 - The first railway in British India, was built by the British government and discovery.
• 1851 - Moscow - Saint Petersburg Railway
• 1852 - The first railroad in Africa, in Alexandria, Egypt.
• 1853 - Passengers on the train makes its debut in Bombay, India
• 1853 - Indianapolis' Union Station, the first "union station", was opened by the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, and Bellefontaine Railroad in the United States.
• 1854 - The first railroad in Brazil, inaugurated by Pedro II of Brazil on April 30 in Rio de Janeiro, built by Viscount of Maua.
• 1854 - The first railway in Norway. Between Oslo and Eidsvoll.
• 1854 - The first steam train pulled in Australia. Melbourne to Hobson Bay, Victoria.
• 1855 - The Panama railroad with more than 50 miles (80 km) of track was completed after five years of work across the Isthmus of Panama at a cost of approximately $ 8 million dollars and more than 6,000 life-first 'continental railway'.
• 1856 - The first railroad in the Papal States, Italy, from Rome to Frascati.
• 1856 - The first railroad completed in Portugal, linking Lisbon to Carregado.
• 1857 - Steel rails were first used in the UK.
• 1857 - The first train in Argentina, founded by the Ferrocarril del Oeste between Buenos Aires and Flores, with a distance of 10 km, was opened to the public on August 30.
• 1858 - Henri Giffard find injector for steam locomotives.
• 1862 - The first train in Finland, from Helsinki to Hämeenlinna.
• 1862 - The Warsaw - Saint Petersburg Railway opened.
• 1863 - The first underground railway, 4 miles (6.4 km) Metropolitan Railway opened in London. It is powered by a steam engine adjusted (which condensed steam to be let out only at certain places with air vents). Bring up a whole new mode of urban transit subway: Subway / U-Bahn / Metro.
• 1863 - Scotland Robert Francis Fairlie Fairlie locomotive created by rotating the driving bogie, allowing trains to negotiate tight curves in the track. This innovation proves rare steam locomotives but the model for diesel and electric locomotives at the front.
• 1865 - Pullman sleeping car was introduced in the United States.
• 1869 - First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) complete the entire United States from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California. Built by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
• 1869 - George Westinghouse set the Westinghouse Air Brake Company in the United States.
• 1872 - The Midland Railway incorporated into third-class coach in his train.
• 1875 - Midland Railway introduces eight and twelve coach bogie wheels.
• 1877 - Vacuum brakes found in the United States.
• 1879 - The first electric railway was demonstrated in Berlin Trades Fair.
• 1881 - The first public electric tram lines, tram Gross-Lichterfelde, opened in Berlin, Germany.
• 1881 - One of the first railway line was built in the Middle East between Tehran and Rayy in Iran.
• 1882 - WC introduced on Great Northern Railway coaches in the UK
• 1882 - The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway connected Atchison, Kansas with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Deming, New Mexico, thus completing the second continental railroad in the U.S.
• 1883 - The first electric streetcar lines served using the power of the air duct, and Hinterbrühl Mödling tram opened in Austria.
• 1883 - Southern Pacific Railroad linked New Orleans, Louisiana to Los Angeles, California to finish third U.S. continental railroad.
• 1883 - The Northern Pacific Railway, link Chicago, Illinois to Seattle, Washington-fourth the U.S. continental railroad.
• 1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed five years ahead of schedule, the time the longest single train, which connects the provinces of eastern and western Canada.
• 1888 - Frank Sprague install "trolleypole" trolley system in Richmond, Virginia, made the first large-scale electric street railway in the U.S., though the first commercial installation of the electric streetcar in the United States was built in 1884 in Cleveland, Ohio and operated for a period of one year by the East Cleveland Street Railway Company.
• 1890 - First electric train London Underground (subway) opened in London-all other subway systems soon followed.
• 1891 - Construction begins on the 9313 km (5,787 mile) Trans-Siberian railway in Russia long. Construction was completed in 1904. Webb C. Set the ball first Railway Watch official guidelines Railroad chronometers.
• 1893 - The Great Northern Railway linked St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle-fifth U.S. continental railroad.
• 1895 - The first electrified railway was opened in Kyoto Japan.
• 1895 - The first mainline electrification in a stretch of four miles (Baltimore Belt Line) of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
• 1899 - The first railway line connecting Noryangjin Korea (Seoul) with Jemulpo (Incheon).
• 1899 - The first electric railway in Tokyo, Keihin Electric Express Railway predecessor open.
• 1899 - First use of three-phase alternating current in the main line. 40 km Burgdorf-Thun line open in Switzerland.
• 1913 - The first diesel-powered railcar entered service in Sweden.
• 1915 - The first major stretch of electrified railway in Sweden, Kiruna Riksgränsen (Malmbanan).
• 1917 - GE Diesel-electric locomotive produced experimentally using Lemp's control design is the first in the United States.
• 1924 - The first diesel-electric locomotive built in the Soviet Union (USSR).
• 1925 - Ingersoll-Rand with traction motors supplied by GE to build locomotives Diesel prototype switching (shunter), the boxcabs AGEIR.
• 1926 - The first diesel locomotive service was introduced in Canada.
• 1930 - GE began producing diesel-electric switching engines.
• 1934 - First diesel efficient passenger rail in America (Burlington Zephyr) was introduced at the Chicago World's Fair.
• 1935 - First train children opened in Tbilisi, USSR.
• 1937-41 - magnetic levitation (maglev) trains in German patent awarded to Hermann Kemper, with a design that is driven by linear motor.
• 1938 - In England, the world speed record for steam traction set by Mallard that reach speeds of 203 km / h (126 mph).
• 1939 - In Persia Trans-Iranian Railway was opened, built entirely by local capital.
• 1939 - driving Diesel-electric trains entered the mainstream in the United States when the Burlington Railroad and Union Pacific began using diesel-electric "streamliners" to haul passengers.
• 1942-1945 - More than 1,200 steam locomotives valued at more than $ 100 million ($ 1,945) is given to the Soviet Union under the Lend Lease U.S.
• 1946 - U.S. railroads began rapidly replacing rolling stock with diesel-electric units. Process is not completed until the mid-1960s.
• 1948 January 1 - British Railways was formed by the nationalization of the assets of the 'Big Four' railway companies (GWR, LMS, LNER and SR).
• 1948 March 1 - foreign-owned railway companies were nationalized in Argentina during the first term of President Peron.
• 1953 - Japanese narrow gauge sets world speed record 145 km / h (90 mph) with Odakyu 3000 series SE Romancecar.
• 1959 April - Construction of the first segment of the Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka started.
• 1960-2000's (decade) - Many countries adopt high-speed rail in an effort to make rail transport competitive with both road transport and air transport.
• 1963, March 27 - Publication of The Reshaping of British Railways (Beeching Report). Commonly known as the "Beeching ax", it causes mass closure of 25% of the route miles and 50% of the station during the following decade.
• 1964 - Bullet Train service was introduced in Japan, between Tokyo and Osaka. Average train speed 160 km / h (100 mph) as shortness share urban tracks, with a top speed of 210 km / hour.
• 1968, August 11 - British Rail ran late last mainline steam-driven train her, named special Fifteen Guinea, after the withdrawal of steam programmed during 1962-1968. This marks the end of 143 years of the use of public railway.
• 1970, June 21 - Penn Central, the dominant railroad in the northeastern United States, into bankruptcy (the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy up to that point). Created just two years earlier in 1968 from the merger of several other railroads, it marked the end of the service the private sector U.S. long distance passenger trains, and forced the creation of government-owned Amtrak on May 1, 1971.
• 1975 August 10 - British Rail experimental tilting train, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) a new British speed record, APT-E reaches 245 km / h (152.3 mph). Prototype APT-P pushed further speed record to 261 km / h (162.2 mph) in December 1979, but when put in service on December 7, 1981, it was unsuccessful and withdrawn days later, resuming only in the West 1980-1986 Coast Main Line.
• 1979 - High-speed TGV trains were introduced in France, the TGV train traveling at an average speed of 213 km / h (132 mph). and with a top speed of 300 km / h (186 mph).
• 1987 - world speed record for diesel locomotive set by British Rail High Speed ​​Train (HST), which reaches speeds of 238 km / h (148 mph).
• 1989 Cairo Underground Metro Line 1 is the first line of the underground in Africa and the Middle East Line length of 44 kilometers (27 mi) with 34 stations 1 million passengers daily passenger operation speed of 100 km / h (62 mph).
• 1990 - world speed record for electric train set in France by TGV, reaching speeds of 515 km / h (320 mph).
• 1994-1997 - The privatization of British Rail. Tenure track and infrastructure passed to Railtrack on 1 April 1994 (replaced by Network Rail in 2002), with passenger operations for the franchise after the 25 individual private sector operators and freight services sold outright.
• 2000 - Amtrak introduced Acela Express in the Northeast Corridor in the United States.
• August 2001 - Northeast China's first electrified railway open for business between Shenyang and Harbin
• 2007 - high-speed train traveling at 350 km / h (217 mph) was introduced in Spain.
• 2007 - Heavy modified French TGV trainset from've beat the world record of the original when Metz-Reims traveling at a speed of 574.8 kilometers per hour (357.2 mph).
• 2008 - Irelands first entered service Intercity DMU excluding 29000 first-class runs at Sligo line.
• 2010 - Shanghai Metro following the London Underground as urban transit system in the world (now serving: 420 km (260 mi) with 278 stations (235 stations excluding serves more than once)