1838 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1838.

Events

January 1 – The United States government contracts with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to carry mail; the B&O is the first railroad to be awarded such a contract in the U.S.^[1]
January 20 – Travelling Post Office (with sorting of mail en route) introduced on Grand Junction Railway in England, initially on an experimental basis.^[2]

March 28 – Jean-Claude-Républicain Arnoux applies for a patent for his train articulation system that will come to be known as the Arnoux system.

June 4 – First section of Great Western Railway of England opens from London Paddington to Maidenhead (temporary stations).^[3]
June 18 – Newcastle and Carlisle Railway opens, the first line across England.^[4]

July 7 – An act of the United States Congress officially designates all railroads in the United States as postal routes.^[1]

September 17 – London and Birmingham Railway is opened throughout to its terminus at Curzon Street railway station, Birmingham, on completion of Kilsby Tunnel under the direction of Chief Engineer Robert Stephenson, the first trunk line in England.^[5]^[6]^[7]
September 22 – Berlin–Potsdam Railway is opened from Berlin-Zehlendorf to Potsdam, the first railway in Prussia.

November 16 – Final section of Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (Rajhrad–Brno) in Moravia (Austrian Empire) opens for exhibition (preliminary) use.

September 16 – James J. Hill, American financier who gains control of the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1916).

Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.

^ ^a ^b "The Post Office Role in U.S. Development – Railway Mail Service". Inventions. ThoughtCo. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved 2005-07-07.
^ Johnson, Peter (1985). The British Travelling Post Office. London: Ian Allan. p. 13. ISBN 0-7110-1459-0.
^ MacDermot, E. T. (1964). History of the Great Western Railway. London: Ian Allan.
^ Whittle, G. (1979). The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7855-4.
^ Webster, Norman W. (1972). Britain's First Trunk Line – the Grand Junction Railway. Bath: Adams & Dart. ISBN 0-239-00105-2.
^ Reed, M. C. (1996). The London & North Western Railway: a history. Penryn: Atlantic. ISBN 0-906899-66-4.
^ Foster, Richard (1990). Birmingham New Street – the story of a great station, including Curzon Street, 1: Background and beginnings: the years up to 1860. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 0-906867-78-9.
^ Ellis, Hamilton (1965). Railway Carriages in the British Isles from 1830 to 1914. London: George Allen & Unwin.

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