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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1850.




Events






= January events

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January – Maine Central Railroad predecessor Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad is completed between Auburn, Maine and Waterville, Maine.




= May events

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May 13 – The Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft opens the Rostock-Bützow-Bad Kleinen and Güstrow-Bützow railway lines in northern Germany.




= July events

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July 1 – Joseph Hamilton Beattie succeeds John Viret Gooch as locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway.
July 4 – Chile: The first section of the Copiapó-Caldera railway line – the second in South America – between Caldera and Monte Amargo is inaugurated today in honour of the nationality of William Wheelwright, the American businessman responsible for the project.




= August events

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August 29 – Robert Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England is opened by Queen Victoria.




= September events

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September 20 – The land grant for construction of the Illinois Central Railroad, the first railroad land grant in the United States, is approved.




= October events

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October 19 – Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, completing the Chester and Holyhead Railway over the Menai Strait in North Wales, is opened.




= November events

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November 19 – Farmers around Detroit, Michigan, burn down the Michigan Central Railroad's freight house in Detroit; the farmers were angry at the railroad's policy regarding not reimbursing them for livestock killed by trains when the stock wandered onto the tracks.
November 20 – The first train operates on the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a predecessor of the Milwaukee Road.




= Unknown date events

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The Richmond and Danville Railroad begins operation in Virginia.
Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, the Panama Railway.




Births






= February births

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February 27 – Henry Huntington, nephew of Collis P. Huntington and executive in charge of Pacific Electric in the early part of the 20th century (d. 1927).




= November births

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November 19 – Jule Murat Hannaford, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1913–1920 (d. 1934).




Deaths






= July deaths

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July 7 – Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (b. 1786).




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