1856 in the history of rail transport

• 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 .

• Beyer-Peacock released the first Swedish locomotives of the B series

Born

• Vaclav Ivanovich Lopushinsky , designer of steam locomotives .

1. ↑ ^{1 2} Rail transport: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. N. S. Konarev . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1994. - 559 p. - ISBN 5-85270-115-7 .
2. ↑ Italian railways