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EVENTS

April events

April 3 - The Joseph Valley Railroad , a predecessor of the Lake Shore And Michigan Southern Railway , is chartered in Michigan .¹

September events

September 9 - The high bridge of the Newcastle To Berwick Railway across the River Tyne in England is completed.

September 10 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's experimental Atmospheric Railway , the South Devon Railway , closes after less than a year of operation.

December events

December - The Galena And Chicago Union Railroad , the oldest part of what is to become the Chicago And North Western Railway , begins operation.

Unknown date events

Tredegar Iron Works manager Joseph R. Anderson becomes the owner of the company.

Wien Westbahnhof , the terminal of Austrian Western Railway in Vienna , Austria , opens.

The first railway in Spain , connecting Barcelona and Mataró , opens.

BIRTHS

February births

February 20 - E. H. Harriman , executive in charge of both the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad at the turn of the 20th Century (d. 1909 ).

Unknown date births

Alonzo C. Mather - founder of Mather Stock Car Company , designed the first widely-recognized humane Stock Car (d. 1941 ).

DEATHS

August deaths

August 12 - George Stephenson , English Steam Locomotive builder (b. 1781 ).

REFERENCES

Dieffenbacher, Jane (2002), '' Mather Family of Fairfield, NY ''. Retrieved March 24 2005 .

'' Tyneside and Berwick Railways ''. Retrieved September 8 2005 .