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Talk:1812 in rail transport

message: 1812 - Matthew Murray / John Blenkinsop
John Blenkinsop the manager of Middleton Colliery, Leeds decided to try using steam locomotives, which used a fuel readily available on site, to haul the coal from the colliery by railway into Leeds.
He instructed Matthew Murray (1765-1826) of Fenton, Murray and Wood based in Water Lane, Leeds to construct a locomotive.
The first locomotive built appeared in public on 24th June 1812.
It is thought to have been named Prince Regent.
There seems to have been a formal inauguration of steam traction on 12th August 1812 when a second locomotive was introduced. It was named Salamanca.
Two further locomotives were built to work another portion of the railway.
The first was named Lord Wellington and was delivered on 4th August 1813.
The fourth locomotive was delivered on 23rd November 1814 and seems to have been known as Marquis Wellington.
The locomotives cost £380 each, which included a royalty of £30 to Trevithick for his patent rights.
Trevithick’s influence in the design is evident in the use of cocks to distribute the steam instead of using the more modern slide valves, which had been patented by Matthew Murray (28th June 1802).
http://www.locos-in-profile.co.uk/Articles/Early_Locos/early2.html
La traction à vapeur a été inaugurée le 12 août 1812 sur le Middleton Railways dans le Yorkshire. Il s'agissait de locomotives pour rails à crémaillère remorquant des wagonnets de charbon. Les locomotives avaient été construites par Matthew Murray (1765-1826) et John Blenkinsop.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_%C3%A0_vapeur
In 1811 a Mr. Blankensop, of Leeds, took out a patent for a machine and rail adapted to each other: a rack or toothed rail was to be laid down along one side of the track, into which a tooth- wheel of his locomotive worked.
The boiler of his engine was supported by a carriage upon four wheels without teeth, and resting immediately on the axles.
These were entirely independent of the working-parts of the engine, and merely supported its weight, the progress being effected by the motion of the cogged wheels working on the cogged rail.
This engine began running on the railroad from the Middleton collieries to the town of Leeds, about three and a quarter miles, on the 12th of August, 1812.
For a number of years it was a permanent object of curiosity, and was visited by crowds of strangers from all parts.
These engines (for several were afterward constructed) drew after them thirty coal-cars, loaded, at a speed of three and a quarter miles per hour, and were in use for many years, and may justly be considered as the first instance of the employment of locomotive power for commercial purposes.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/chpt6.html
Wdew 19:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: August 12: inauguration of steam traction?
Talk:1822 in rail transport

message: Stockton & Darlington Railway
The first rail of the line was laid in ceremonial style on 24th May, 1822 at Stockton by the Chairman of the Company, Thomas Meynell.
The civic dignitaries turned out, bells were rung and ships sirens could be heard from the river.
A procession through the streets was followed by the firing of a salute as Thomas Meynell laid the first stretch of rail.
http://www.railcentre.co.uk/stockton/opening2.htm
Wdew 19:48, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 1st rail Stockton & Darlington Railway?

message: 1822 - George Stephenson
The Hetton Colliery in County Durham was a completely new colliery, which was begun on the 19th December 1819.
From the start it was planned to use steam engines and steam locomotives to haul the coal from the pit to the newly erected staith on the banks of the Wear near Sunderland.
George Stephenson laid out the railway, which was eight miles in length, but George’s brother Robert was made engineer put in charge of building it.
The flat sections were worked at the time of opening by three of George Stephenson's steam locomotives. At the opening of the railway on 18th of November 1822 crowds of people came to see this new marvel.
They witnessed the locomotives pulling seventeen loaded wagons, averaging sixty-four tons, at the rate of four miles an hour.
http://www.locos-in-profile.co.uk/Articles/Early_Locos/early5.html
In 1819 the Patton Colliery, in Durham, was altered into a locomotive railroad, and Mr. Stephenson ap pointed its chief engineer. He soon began his labors, and on the 18th of November, 1822, the road was opened for the first time for locomotives.
Crowds came from all directions to witness the experiment. Five of Mr. Stephenson's engines were upon the road that day, each engine drawing after it seventeen wagons loaded, averaging sixty-four tons, at the rate of four miles an hour.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/chpt9.html
In 1817, Stephenson built an engine for the Duke of Portland, to haul coal from Kilmarnock to Troon, which cost £750, and, with some interruptions, this engine worked on that line until 1848, when it wax broken up.
On November 18, 1822, the Hetton Railway, near Sunderland, was opened.
George Stephenson was the engineer of the line­a short track, 8 miles long, built from the Hutton Colliery to the docks on the bank of the river Wear. On this line he put in five of the " selfacting inclines "­two inclines worked by stationary engines, the gradients being too heavy for locomotives­and used five locomotiveengines of his own design, which were called by the people of the neighborhood, possibly for the first time, " the iron horses." These engines were quite similar to the Killingworth engine.
They drew a train of 17 coalcars­a total load of 64 tons ­ about 4 miles an hour. 
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/Chapter4.html
Wdew (talk) 09:57, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening Hetton Railway
Talk:1825 in rail transport

message: The Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) was planned as a 26 mile railway to link inland coal mines to Stockton on Tees, where coal would be transferred for shipping. It was initially going to be a horse-drawn wagonway, but George Stephenson persuaded the builders to experiment with steam locomotives.
The line opened on September 27 1825, with Stephenson’s new locomotive ‘Locomotion No. 1’ pulling 36 wagons carrying a mix of coal and flour as well as guests and workmen.
Most of the passengers were carried in open wagons, but a purpose-built passenger coach, ‘Experiment’, carried 18 dignitaries, and became the first such vehicle to carry people on a railway.
http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/history1.php
1825 - First steam engine to work a public railway (George Stephenson’s Locomotion, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Britain).  “The car ‘Experiment’ passes into history as the first type of railway passenger coach. It belongs to a stage coach line, the managers of which have an agreement with the Stockton and Darlington Company to run it upon the road with the provision that the side track shall always be taken when a train of coal wagons comes into view.  Passengers are carried at so much each, the same as on the stage line, and it is drawn by horses, as the locomotive service is exclusively for freight.”http://www.narprail.org/cms/index.php/resources/more/railroad_history/
At this trial experiment, September 27, 1825, the first passenger-car, or wagon as it was called at that day, was put upon the road.
It had been ordered and made at Mr. Stephenson's works, and had only arrived the day before the trial.
It was the vehicle in which the directors and their friends rode upon the occasion.
Although built by Mr. Stephenson, it was a very modest and uncouth-looking affair, made more for strength than for beauty.
A row of seats ran along each side of the interior, and a long table was fixed in the center, the access being by a doorway behind, like an omnibus of the present day.
This vehicle was named the Experiment, and was the only carriage for passengers upon the road for some time. It was, however, the forerunner of a mighty traffic, and soon after new and more improved passenger-carriages were introduced upon the road, all at first drawn by horses.
The Experiment was first regularly put upon the road for passenger use on the 10th of October, 1861. It was drawn by one horse, and performed a journey each Bray daily between the two towns, twelve miles, in two hours.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/brown/chpt9.html
Wdew 14:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: September 27 events: additional information: 1st passenger-car ever used:
Talk:1830 in rail transport

message: The development of the railways led to the end of the mail coaches, with railways first carrying mail on 11 November 1830, between Liverpool and Manchester. Other rail lines developed and by the early 1840s many London-based mail coaches were being withdrawn from service. The last regular London based coach service was the London to Norwich, via Newmarket, which ended on 6 January 1846. Mail coaches survived however on services between some provincial towns until the 1850s. Many mail coach guards found continuing Post Office employment as mail guards on the trains.
http://postalheritage.org.uk/history/downloads/BPMA_Info_Sheet_MailCoaches_web.pdf
Wdew (talk) 10:04, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: United Kingdom - railways first carrying mail
Talk:1832 in rail transport

message: The Post Office Department recognized the value of this new mode of transportation for mail as early as November 30, 1832, when the stage contractors on a route from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, were granted an allowance of $400 per year "for carrying the mail on the railroad as far as West Chester (30 miles) from December 5, 1832." After passage of the Act of July 7, 1838, designating all railroads in the United States as post routes, mail service by railroad increased rapidly. The first experiment in distributing U.S. mail in so-called "post offices on wheels" was made in 1862 between Hannibal and St. Joseph, Missouri, by William A. Davis, postmaster of St. Joseph. Although this new procedure expedited the connection at St. Joseph with the overland stage, it was discontinued in January 1863. On August 28, 1864, the first U.S. Railroad Post Office route was officially established when George B. Armstrong, the assistant postmaster of Chicago, Illinois, placed a postal car equipped for general distribution in service between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. Similar routes were established between New York and Washington; Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois; Chicago and Burlington, Illinois; and New York and Erie, Pennsylvania.
On April 30, 1971, the Post Office Department terminated seven of the eight remaining routes. The lone, surviving railway post office ran between New York and Washington, D.C., and made its last run on June 30, 1977.
http://www.usps.com/history/his2.htm#RAIL
Wdew (talk) 10:10, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: United States - start 'carrying the mail on the railroad'
Talk:1833 in rail transport

message: June 6, 1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first President of the United States to ride on a railroad train- between Ellicott's Mills, MD and Baltimore.
http://www.railfanclub.org/archives/newsletters/June05/ThisMonth.htm
June 6, 1833 President Andrew Jackson rides the Baltimore & Ohio from Ellicott City to Baltimore, becoming the first US President to travel by rail, during his term in office.
http://www.nrhs.com/almanac/rr-almanac-1820-1839.pdf
De Baltimore & Ohio was de maatschappij die de meeste vernieuwingen introduceerde.
Het was namelijk de eerste spoorweg die: * een Amerikaanse president vervoerde, toen Andrew Jackson van Ellicott's Mill naar Baltimore reisde (6 juni 1833);
Boek: Het Groot Guinness Treinen Boek (bijgewerkt tot 1982) - , blz 26
Wdew (talk) 10:15, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1st US President to travel by rail
Talk:1841 in rail transport

message: sorry in French, but look at the dates
Inauguration, le 19/09/1841 de la première ligne ferroviaire internationale entre Strasbourg (en FR) et Basel (en CH).
http://christophe.lachenal.free.fr/francais/education/fr_education_historique.html
Le chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle, inauguré le 19 septembre 1841.
Les 140 kilomètres qui séparent Strasbourg de Bâle en faisait alors la ligne la plus longue d'Europe, et la première au monde à franchir une frontière.
http://www.laviedurail.com/culturerail/histoire/panorama/pan_origine.php?SID=20040325122833261C57A0
Wdew (talk) 10:52, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1st railway line passing a border
Talk:Chapel Arm

message: I removed a huge chunk of text (below) from the article page. It may be a copy vio but it looks like a copy of old news storys. If this is the case and it is out of copyright then it should go on Wikisource. In any case it is not very enclopedic and so it should be paraphrased and cited in a "history" section of the article. Andreww 18:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:1889 in rail transport

message: 1er juin 1889 : départ du premier Orient-Express circulant sans transbordement de Paris à Constantinople par l'itinéraire de Budapest-Belgrade-Sofia 
http://www.laviedurail.com/culturerail/histoire/panorama/pan_voies.php?SID=2004063002383644C11D98
le 1er juin 1889 " l'Orient-Express " circula sans transbordement de Paris à Constantinople, sa marche accusant une diminution de durée de trajet de 14 heures (durée totale : 67h35)
http://www.laviedurail.com/culturerail/histoire/panorama/pan_orientexp.php?SID=2005082203383555BBCB17
1889-1-6 la voie Belgrade-Nish-Sofia-Constantinople ayant été achevée, le voyage se fait entièrement par fer de Paris à Constantinople : 3 186 km en 67 h 35.
http://www.quid.fr/2000/Q042850.htm
The first through train between Vienna and Istanbul ran on August 12, 1888.
Through running of the Orient Express between Paris and Istanbul started on June 1, 1889.
http://www.gregoriou.itgo.com/photo2.html
Wdew 21:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: June 1, 1st direct Orient-Express Paris > Constantinopel ?

message: only in Dutch:
Station Amsterdam Centraal (NS: Amsterdam Centraal) is het Centraal Station van de Nederlandse hoofdstad Amsterdam. Het is gebouwd tussen 1881 en 1889 door architect P.J.H. Cuypers en werktuigbouwkundige A.L. van Gendt.
Het Centraal Station is gebouwd op drie aangeplempte eilanden in het IJ.
Net als veel andere gebouwen in Amsterdam werd het gebouwd op houten palen (8687 stuks om precies te zijn).
Op 15 oktober 1889 werd het station onder enorme publieke belangstelling geopend.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Centraal
station Amsterdam CS - geopend op 15 oktober 1889
Centraal Station: In gebruik sinds 15 oktober 1889.
http://stationsweb.brinkster.net/station.asp?station=amsterdamcs
Wdew (talk) 21:05, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening Amsterdam's Centraal Station
Talk:1934 in rail transport

message: I suggest removal of the globalize/USA template from this article.  It may have been appropriate at one time, but the article now includes information about railroads in Canada, England, and Italy.  The template is not found on many of the articles of this series, and the year 1934 may have been relatively eventful for United States railways.Thewellman (talk) 20:09, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Globalize/USA template
Talk:Brian Lehrer

message: Just added the image of Brian Lehrer. This page needs some work, too much POV/OR and to little detail on his background. I'm addicted to his show btw, it's like crack.--Jersey Devil 06:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There seems to be alot of content in this article taken directly from here, this is a copyright violation. To editors seeing this, please do not directly copy and paste info from other sites. Thank you.--Jersey Devil 07:02, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: wtf? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.175.188.98 (talk) 15:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lawls that chun cai 

message: I was adding stuff for this article when I noticed parts of the article were possibly taken from this page about Brian Lehrer. What should I do? --Blue387 (talk) 06:29, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content copied from WNYC? 
Talk:Double-yellow-headed

message: Yellow-headed Parrot claims that that bird is also known as the Double Yellow-headed Amazon.  I don't know anything about parrots, but Yellow-headed Parrot shows genus Amazona and this article gives genus Diopsittaca.  Not sure if a merge is needed.  The title of this page should be changed, as it should surely be "Double Yellow Headed Parrot" or "Double Yellow Headed Amazon". 165.189.91.148 18:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, this article is about the Yellow-headed Parrot but gives the scientific name and subspecies of the Red-shouldered Macaw.  Since all the information here is duplicated at the former article, this one should probably be replaced with a redirect there.  —JerryFriedman 22:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Yellow-headed Parrot]]
Talk:Enriched flour

message: Can anyone tell me if the USA is the only country adding synthetic vitamins to their wheat flour?
What about Canada - is this also "required" by law in Canada, or is it only some manufacturers that chose to do it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.79.11.27 (talk) 23:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This site lists 86 countries that enrich wheat flour. http://www.ffinetwork.org/global_progress/ David notMD (talk) 02:08, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the USA the only country that enriches flour? 

message: Does anyone know anything about some nutritionists saying that Enriched Flower is bad for you and should be avoided (along with things like High Fructose Corn Syrup?
--Quasar 18:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enriched Flower Bad for you? 

message: I know that they started enriching flour to prevent diseases and I wanted to find out more about those diseases.  However, this article doesn't state which diseases they are.  Some research into this would be helpful.
*The diseases it helps to prevent would be those caused by deficiencies in the nutrients added back in to the flour. Examples would include folate deficiency and iron deficiency -Aqua 07:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diseases 

message: According to this article
Many claims are made on this page.
No citations to follow them up.
According to this article, Vitamin water will make us 6'6" in the future.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.193.17 (talk) 04:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enriched Flour is a miracle drug 

message: "There is also a significant difference in the type of iron added to enriched flour, a type that may be toxic rather than nutritional." Any non-crank source for this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.3.162.47 (talk) 23:22, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toxic kinds of iron 
Talk:Extended Versions (Foreigner album)

message: It doesn't really make any sense for this article to be located at "Extended Versions", since, as the article mentions, EV is the name of the series which spans (I think) several dozen albums by different bands. Propaniac (talk) 19:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Series
Talk:List of reduplicated place names

message: This list started as :Category:Double-named places. This was finally deleted following conversion to this list as agreed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 July 5. The discussions below, before today's date, are from the category talk page; I took the unusual decision to move the talk page here. – Fayenatic London 21:54, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Page history

message: Why in the world isn't "New York, New York" in this category?  There's even a song about it:  "The town so nice, they named it twice."71.219.230.36 (talk) 14:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "New York, New York" isn't a reduplicated name. It's two separate names (the name of the city and the name of the state) that happen to be the same. —Bkell (talk) 19:57, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: NY

message: It's a delightful category, but the title "Double-named places" is misleading, since there is already a Wikipedia List of double placenames in which the doubleness consists of merging two former placenames into a new single placename. A more accurate linguistic term would be Reduplicative placenames. See Reduplication. So let's rename it. Tacitus 21:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading term

message: Bora Bora (which brought me here) is a genuine reduplication reflecting the grammar of the local language.
Nene is not.  It is merely an accident of spelling.  To be a genuine reduplication it would need a precursor form *ne-ne, for which there is no evidence.  Just as 'scene' and 'seen' are pronounced indistinguishably in British English, so are 'Nene' and 'Neen' - which latter is a local name for another English river.
If someone with more knowledge (and time!) than I could classify these names as genuine (grammatical, onomatopoeic...) or accidental it would avoid potential misunderstandings. John M Brear (talk) 10:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely. There are several doubled vowels (Aa in Estonia, for example); in itself this says nothing, because in many languages double vowels occur as part of the spelling system ("peep" in English, even!) Å is a place in Norway, but in old Danish spelling the "A-ring" is just written "Aa". Estonian is likely to be the same. Imaginatorium (talk) 07:29, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real and apparent reduplication
Talk:Woodhouse College

message: Please refrain from using insulting words in your "Notable Students" section. Help keep Wikipedia clean. Ale_Jrb 18:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

message: I deleted the "Notable students" section, which was vandalized yet again.  There was only one real student listed, anyway. Everything else added was vandalism.  So we're probably better off without it.  --John Nagle 18:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted "Notable students" section