1843 in rail transport
Events
January events
- January 3 – The Great Western Railway of England officially opens its Swindon Works.
- January 28 – Boston and Maine Railroad and Eastern Railroad reach an agreement to both lease the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad as a joint line to Portland, Maine.
February events
- February 23 – Boston and Maine Railroad extends its line to Agamenticus.
- February 25 – The Grand Duke of Hesse and Grand Duke of Baden in present-day Germany agree to construct the Main-Neckar-Eisenbahn from Heidelberg to a connection with the state railway in Baden.
July events
- July – The Leeds and Bradford Railway, in West Yorkshire, England, obtains its Act of Parliament.
October events
- October – Horatio Allen succeeds William Maxwell as president of the Erie Railroad.
- October 15 – Official opening of first continuous international railway line between Antwerp, Belgium and Köln, Prussia, making Herbesthal railway station the first international border station in the world.
November events
- November 1 – The earliest ancestor of the Rutland Railroad, the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, is chartered by the state of Vermont.
Unknown date events
- John Cooke, future founder of Cooke Locomotive Works, is promoted to superintendent at American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.
Births
February births
