1882 in rail transport

Years in rail transport
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Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1882.

• January 1 – Opening to traffic of the Gotthard Tunnel (15 km (9.3 mi)), completing the Gotthardbahn in Switzerland.^{[1][page needed]}
• January 2 – Building northward from San Diego, California Southern Railroad tracks reach Fallbrook, California.^[2]
• January 9 – The first train from Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Cincinnati Northern Railway, departs for Dayton, Ohio.
• January 12 – The first train between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dayton, Ohio, delayed by poor trackwork on the Cincinnati Northern Railway, arrives in Dayton.

• March 6 – Regular service begins on the Cincinnati Northern Railway between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dayton, Ohio.
• March 27 – Continuing its northward construction, California Southern Railroad tracks reach Temecula, California.^[2]

• April 17 – The St. Clairsville and Northern Railway, connecting St. Clairsville to Barton, Ohio, is incorporated.^[3]

• May 15 – Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, the precursor to the current Berlin Hauptbahnhof, opens in Germany.

• July 29 – Narrow gauge Catskill Mountain Railway opens to carry passengers from Hudson River steamboats to connections at Palenville, New York to the Catskill Mountain House destination resort.^[4]

• August 21 – The first California Southern Railroad train from National City reaches Colton, California.^[2][5]
• August 23 – The first Canadian Pacific Railway train arrives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
• August 24 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway leases the 97 mile (156 km) long Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad.

• September 1 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway begins operations over the leased Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad.

• October 10 – Departure 'Train Éclair de luxe', the test train for the Express d'Orient, the later Orient Express, from Paris (Gare de Strasbourg) to Wien (return arrival at Paris on October 14).
• October 16 – The Nickel Plate Road runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois.
• October 25 – The Seney Syndicate sells the Nickel Plate Road to William H. Vanderbilt for US$7.2 million.

• Spring – The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Albuquerque, New Mexico, reaches Canyon Diablo, Arizona.
• Transcaucasian Railway reaches Baku on the Caspian Sea.^[6]
• William Cornelius Van Horne becomes general manager of Canadian Pacific Railway.
• Minerva Car Works, later to become part of American Car and Foundry, is founded in Minerva, Ohio.

• February 4 – L. B. Billinton, Locomotive Engineer for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1912–1923 (d. 1954).

• August 25 – Richard Paul Wagner, locomotive designer for Deutsche Reichsbahn 1922–1942 (d. 1953).

• September 19 – Oliver Bulleid, chief mechanical engineer of the Southern Railway (Great Britain) 1937–1948, born in New Zealand (d. 1970).

• December 6 – Alfred Escher, Swiss railway promoter (b. 1819)
• December 24 – Charles Vincent Walker English railway telegraph engineer (b. 1812).

• John Cooke, superintendent of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works and founder of Cooke Locomotive Works (b. 1824).
• John P. Laird, Scottish engineer who designed and patented the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (b. 1826).

• Dodge, Richard V. (November 15, 1959), Perris and its Railroad: California Southern Railway history. Retrieved August 15, 2005.
• (1913), History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. Retrieved August 23, 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History – August. Retrieved August 22, 2005.
• Santa Fe Railroad (1945), Along Your Way, Rand McNally, Chicago, Illinois.
• White, John H. Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.