1856 in the history of rail transport
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Events
- The first Haydarpasa - Eskisehir - Ankara and Eskisehir - Konya railway lines were built in Turkey . [one]
- In Portugal, laid the first railway line Lisbon - Carregado . [one]
- April 21 - The first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River between Rock Island , Illinois , and Davenport , Iowa , opened.
- A railway line connecting Rome with the city of Frascati was built. Termini Station was built for this road in Rome [2] .
- The machine-building company Tampella was founded in Finland , which has been producing steam locomotives since 1900 .
New rolling stock
- Beyer-Peacock released the first Swedish locomotives of the B series
Persons
Born
- Vaclav Ivanovich Lopushinsky , designer of steam locomotives .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Rail transport: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. N. S. Konarev . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1994. - 559 p. - ISBN 5-85270-115-7 .
- ↑ Italian railways