1872 in the history of rail transport

• March 5 - George Westinghouse patented an air brake .
• The narrow-gauge line Yaroslavl - Vologda of the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway was built .
• The construction of the Poti-Tiflis railway is completed ^[1]
• 1872 - The first phase of the Konstantinovskaya Konstantinovka - Elenovka railway was commissioned. The Mining Station was built, later named also by the name of the local landowners - Rutchenkovo .
• 1872 - The Mining Company of the South of Russia began the construction of a driveway from Rudnichnaya station to a coal mine near the village of Kurakhovka - 24 versts (completed in 1876).
• Russia began to exploit domestic production tanks , mainly for the transportation of oil . ^[2]
• In Moscow , the first line of horseback from the Brest ( Belarusian ) railway station to the building of the City Duma ( Historical Museum ), timed to coincide with the opening of the Polytechnic Exhibition, began to operate. ^[2]
• In Bolivia, laid the first railway line. ^[2]
• The company " Westinghouse " began to produce brakes for rolling stock with automatic control. ^[2]
• In Japan, the first Tokyo - Yokohama railway line was laid. ^[2]
• In Russia, formed Ryazhsko-Vyazemskaya railway . ^[3]
• In Belgium , the Railway 55 was built between Ghent - Terneuzen .
• In Switzerland, the construction of the St. Gotthard railway began .

Born

• Raevsky, Alexander Sergeevich - Russian scientist, designer of locomotives .

1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Ch. ed. B. A. Vvedensky, 2nd ed. T. 16. Iron - the Earth. 1952. 672 pp., Ill .; 51 l. ill. and cards.
2. ↑ ^{1 2 3 4 5} Railway transport: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. N. S. Konarev . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1994. - 559 p. - ISBN 5-85270-115-7 .
3. Brief information about the development of domestic railways from 1838 to 1990. / Comp. G.M.Afonina —M., 1996.