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The western section from Saint-Germain to Nanterre is now part of the RER A, the busiest railway line in Europe. 1837 – Robert Davidson built the first electric locomotive. 1838 – The world's first railroad junction is formed in Branchville, South Carolina. The railroad company extended its existing rail that ran between Charleston and the ...
First railway line by country. Europe was the epicenter of rail transport and has today one of the densest networks (an average of 46 km (29 mi) for every 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) in the EU as of 2013). [10]
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Completion of a dual-gauge connection unifies Normandy's narrow-gauge Chemins de fer du Calvados. [11] Great Indian Peninsula Railway property purchased by Government of India. [12] The Boston and Albany Railroad becomes a subsidiary of the New York Central. July 19 – The first section of the Paris Métro opens.
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the North-east 1810–1850 to the settlement of the West 1850–1890. The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended growth.
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Lefranc, Georges. "The French Railroads, 1823–1842", Journal of Business and Economic History, II, 1929–30, 299–331. Le Henaff, Colonel, and Captain Bronecque. The French railroads and the war (1922) World War I online; Milward, Alan, and S.B. Saul. The Economic Development of Continental Europe 1780–1870 (1973) pp 335–43. Mitchell ...
In the first half of the 19th century, opinions about the emerging railways in Germany varied widely. While business-minded people like Friedrich Harkort and Friedrich List saw in the railway the possibility of stimulating the economy and overcoming the patronization of little states, and were already starting railway construction in the 1820s and early 1830s, others feared the fumes and smoke ...