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2019 Anniversaries 400Th Anniversary 1619 Aug 29 Baptism of Andrew Yarranton, Inland Navigation Promoter (Astley, Worcs.) (D 2019 Anniversaries 400th anniversary 1619 Aug 29 Baptism of Andrew Yarranton, inland navigation promoter (Astley, Worcs.) (d. 1684). 1619 Dec - First Lizard lighthouse illuminated. 300th anniversary 1719 Feb - Birth of William Edwards, bridge engineer and preacher (Eglwysilan, Glam.) (d. 1789) 1719 Jul 1 Baptism of John Grundy jr, waterways engineer (Congerstone, Leics.) (d. 1783). 250th anniversary 1769 Mar 23 Birth of William Smith, canal engineer and geologist (Churchill, Oxon.) (d. 1839) 1769 Apr 21 Oxford Canal Act. Samuel Simcock appointed to set out its line. 1769 Jun 13 Josiah Wedgwood opens his Etruria Works beside the Trent & Mersey Canal. 1769 Aug 3 North Bridge, Edinburgh, part collapses while nearing completion (5 killed). 1769 Oct 20 c. First demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle, by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in Paris. 1769 Oct 24 Stort Navigation completed to Bishop’s Stortford. 1769 Oct 31 Ure Navigation completed through Milby Cut (Boroughbridge) to Westwick Wath. 1769 Nov - Shannon made navigable from Killaloe (Lough Derg) to Roosky above Lough Ree. 1769 Nov 6 Birmingham Canal opened to Wednesbury (James Brindley, engineer). 1769 Nov 19 First Blackfriars Bridge opened to wheeled traffic as Pitt Bridge in London (Robert Mylne, engineer). 1769 -- - Ouse Navigation opened Widdington Ings–Swale Nab. 1769 -- - Kymer’s Canal opened. Pwll-y-Llygod Bridge spanning the Gwendraeth Fawr and carrying a tramroad from Carway Colliery to the canal terminus is of the same date and is Wales’ oldest surviving tramroad bridge. Bicentenary 1819 Mar 1 Montgomeryshire Canal Western Branch opened Garthmyl–Newtown (on restricted basis). 1819 Mar 10 Grosmont Rly (Monmouthshire) completed by this date. 1819 Apr 2 North Wilts Canal opened. 1819 Apr 5 A 36 hr schedule for the London–Dublin mails via the Holyhead Road is introduced, marking completion of Nant Francon embankment (Thomas Telford, engineer). 1819 Apr 6 Carlisle Canal authorised. 1819 Apr 13 Mansfield & Pinxton Rly opened. 1819 May 14 First iron-hulled inland waterways craft, passenger packet boat Vulcan, launched on Monkland Canal at Faskine, Airdrie, for service on Forth & Clyde Canal (Thomas Wilson, engineer). 1819 Jun 14 Bude Canal authorised in form as built (James Green, engineer). 1819 Jun 18 Lancaster Canal officially opened throughout to Kendal. 1819 Jun 20 SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, arrives at Liverpool from its namesake port, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam. 1819 Jun 24 James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick form a partnership at Stourbridge. 1819 Jul - New Steam Packet Co. introduces SS Talbot on seasonal Irish Sea passenger service, Holyhead–Howth. 1819 Jul 2 Plymouth & Dartmoor Rly incorporated. 1819 Jul 2 Roads Between London and Holyhead Act authorises building of Menai Suspension Bridge, construction of which begins in Aug. 1819 Jul 14 Birth of Benjamin Hall Blyth, railway civil engineer (Edinburgh) (d. 1866). 1819 Jul 22 PS Waterloo begins regular Belfast–Liverpool steam packet service. 1819 Jul 28 Birth of John Fraser, railway civil engineer (Linlithgow) (d. 1881). 1819 Aug 1 All Holyhead Road turnpikes come under a single trust, under terms of Act, May. 1819 Aug 18 Regent Bridge, Edinburgh, opened. 1819 Aug 25 Death of James Watt, mechanical engineer (Handsworth) (b. 1736). 1819 Sep 2 Henry Bell’s PS Comet begins regular Glasgow–Fort William service (via Crinan Canal). 1819 Sep 26 Birth of Edward Watkin, chairman, MS&LR, SER, Metropolitan Rly and Channel Tunnel Co. (Salford) (d. 1901). 1819 Sep 28 Windham Sadler makes a gas balloon voyage from Liverpool to Norton (near Stockton), Co. Durham. 1819 Oct 20 Birth of George Robert Stephenson, railway civil engineer (Newcastle) (d. 1905). 1819 Nov 16 Birth of John Pattinson, locomotive superintendent in Russia (Carlisle) (d. 1886). 1819 Nov 28 Birth of Walter Neilson, locomotive works founder (Glasgow) (d. 1889). 1819 -- - ‘Patent Safety’ coaches introduced. 175th anniversary 1844 Start of Railway Mania: 800 miles (1285 km) of line authorised this year. 1844 Jan 1 Eastern Counties Rly takes over operation of Northern & Eastern Rly. 1844 Jan 1 Manchester & Leeds Rly opens Miles Platting–Manchester Victoria (Hunts Bank). 1844 Jan 1 Bridgewater Canal Co. purchases Mersey & Irwell Navigation Co. 1844 Jan - Edinburgh & Glasgow Rly builds the first locomotive at its Cowlairs works, 0-6-0T Hercules for working Cowlairs incline (William Paton, superintendent of locomotives). 1844 Feb 1 Skerryvore lighthouse first illuminated (Alan Stevenson, engineer). 1844 Feb c.1 General Steam Carriage Co. formed to operate steam road carriages to Hills’ patent. 1844 Feb 7 South Eastern Railway opens throughout London–Dover. Extended May 1 to Bricklayers Arms. 1844 Feb 14 Birmingham & Warwick Juncn and Tame Valley Canals opened in Birmingham area. 1844 Mar - Dartford & Crayford Navigation completed. 1844 Mar 9 Wishaw & Coltness Rly opens Newarthill–Chapel. 1844 Mar 29 Kingstown & Dalkey Rly (Ireland) opens officially on atmospheric system. 1844 Apr 15 Newcastle & Darlington Juncn Rly opens Darlington–Rainton to goods; also Durham (Gilesgate) branch. 1844 Apr 5 Birth of R.J. Billinton, mechanical engineer (Wakefield) (d. 1904). 1844 Apr 30 Yarmouth & Norwich Rly opens. 1844 Apr c. I.K. Brunel’s SS Great Britain*, fitting out at Cumberland Basin, Bristol, is photographed by W.H. Fox Talbot, the first known photograph of a ship. 1844 May 1 Bristol & Exeter Rly opens Beam Bridge–Exeter (through Whiteball Tunnel) worked by GWR (Orion), giving a continuous broad gauge line from Paddington of 194 miles (312 km). Last stage coaches taken off Exeter road. 1844 May 1 SER opens Bricklayers Arms terminus. 1844 May 4 Liverpool & Manchester Rly opens Ordsall–Manchester Victoria (used also by Manchester, Bolton & Bury trains); Manchester Liverpool Road and Oldham Road stations closed to passengers. 1844 May 6 J.M.W. Turner completes his painting Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway. 1844 May 10 Midland Rly formed by merger of Midland Counties Rly, North Midland Railway and Birmingham & Derby Juncn Rly. 1844 May 17 Great Northern and London & York Rly schemes merge, initially under L&Y name. 1844 May 22 River Ancholme South Ferriby Sluice officially opened (John Rennie, engineer). 1844 May 24 Samuel Morse transmits the first telegraph message by Morse code, Washington, D.C.–Baltimore. 1844 May 26 Dublin & Drogheda Rly opens to public. 1844 May 27 West London Rly opens Willesden–Kensington Basin. New West London Juncn station at Willesden opens c. Jun; exchange station with GWR at Mitre Bridge crossing with mixed gauge to south for goods stock. 1844 May 27 Stockton & Darlington Rly Stockton suspension bridge replaced by 5-span cast-iron trussed girder (Robert Stephenson, engineer). 1844 Jun 12 GWR opens Didcot Juncn–Oxford terminus. 1844 Jun 15 Opening of first railway in Switzerland, from Basel to St Ludwig in Alsace. 1844 Jun 19 Newcastle & Darlington Juncn Rly opens Darlington–Rainton to regular passengers, with stock supplied by Great North of England Rly, giving access to Gateshead via Brockley Whins (by reversal until Aug 19). 1844 Jul 4 Railways authorised include Chester & Holyhead, North British and South Devon. 1844 Jul 8 Bristol & Gloucester Rly opens Westerleigh–Gloucester on broad gauge to passengers. 1844 Jul 19 Eastern Union Rly authorised. 1844 Aug 6 Birth of J.H. Greathead, civil engineer (Grahamstown, Cape Colony) (d. 1896). 1844 Aug 8 Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester Rly opens Dinting–Woodhead to public. 1844 Aug 9 Railway Regulation Act (An Act to attach certain Conditions to the construction of future Railways, “Gladstone’s Act”). Introduces Parliamentary trains and provision for government to purchase new railways after 21 years if they are making excessive profits. Equivalents (a provision for companies to be protected from competing lines by agreeing permanent rate reductions) is dropped from the Bill. 1844 Aug end South Wales Rly prospectus issued. 1844 Sep 25 SER opens Maidstone Road (Paddock Wood)–Maidstone. 1844 Sep–Oct Eastern Counties Rly converts from 5 ft (1524 mm) to standard gauge. 1844 Oct - Norwich & Lowestoft Navigation acquired from Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners by Morton Peto, railway contractor. 1844 Oct - River Severn Diglis Locks, Worcester completed. 1844 Nov 12 Iron steamship Gypsy Queen explodes under test on the Thames, killing 6 including its builder, engineer Jacob Samuda (b. 1811). 1844 Nov 28 Liskeard & Caradon Rly opens Cheesewring–Tremabe to horse-drawn minerals. 1844 Nov 29 Dublin & Drogheda Rly opens permanent Dublin station in Amiens Street. 1844 Nov 29 Edinburgh & Leith Rly tunnel floods catastrophically (4 killed). 1844 Nov 30 West London Rly passenger trains last operate until 1862. 1844 Dec 3 London & Birmingham Rly opens Warwick & Leamington Union Coventry–Kenilworth– Leamington–Warwick. 1844 Dec 11 I.K. Brunel’s SS Great Britain* is towed through his partly reconstructed Cumberland Basin south entrance lock into the Avon at Bristol. 1844 Dec 26 Monkland Rly opens Airdrie (Hallcraig)–Kirkintilloch to passengers. Sesquicentenary 1869 Jan 1 L&SWR opens Kensington–Richmond and Coombe & Malden–Kingston. 1869 Jan 18 Accidents in London fog at Copenhagen Tunnel and Acton Richmond Juncn (2+1 killed). 1869 Feb 1 GER opens Bishop’s Stortford–Braintree. 1869 Mar 1 NER opens Hexham–Catton Road to passengers. 1869 Mar 7 Birth of Arthur C. Stamer, locomotive engineer, (L)NER (Shrewsbury) (d. 1944). 1869 Mar 14 GWR last runs broad gauge trains over Metropolitan Rly to Moorgate Street (operates narrow gauge trains from Jun 1) and broad gauge abandoned on Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines. 1869 Apr 1 GWR abandons broad gauge over Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton lines, also Reading–Basingstoke. 1869 Apr 1 L&NWR opens Weaver Juncn–Ditton cut-off to passengers (goods Feb 1), including Runcorn Bridge (lattice girder on stone piers; William Baker, engineer) and flyover at Weaver Juncn. 1869 Apr 1 NER opens Micklefield–Church Fenton. 1869 Apr ?1 Lee Conservancy Board takes over management of the river from Trustees of the Lea Navigation under terms of the Lee Conservancy Act 1868.
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