Events March events 9 March – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed from Wilmington to Weldon, North Carolina. At 161.5 miles (260 km), it is the world's longest railroad at this time. April events April – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh to near Weldon, North Carolina. May events 11 May – The London and South Western Railway opens its original main line throughout to Southampton (England). July events 1 July - The Midland Counties Railway of England opens its line from Derby and Nottingham via Leicester to a junction with the London and Birmingham Railway at Rugby. August events 12 August – The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Ayr, the first inter-urban railroad in Scotland. 17 August – The first railroad built in Milan, Italy, the Milan and Monza Rail Road opens for service. October events 8 October – Formal opening of first section of the Taff Vale Railway, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, from Cardiff Docks to Navigation House (Abercynon). Public service begins the following day. December events 21 December – Manchester and Birmingham Railway in England completes Stockport Viaduct (but does not yet bring it into use). It is one of the largest brick structures in Europe. Unknown date events By July – August Borsig completes the first steam locomotive built in Germany. Mordecai W. Jackson and George Mack partner to create a farm implement manufacturing company that will eventually become Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, one of the constituent companies of American Car and Foundry Company. Births January births January 8 – William Dean, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Great Western Railway of England 1877–1902 (d. 1905). January 29 – Henry H. Rogers, American financier who helped finance and build the Virginian Railway (d. 1909). February births February 7 – Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886–1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890–1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (d. 1919). March births March 31 – Benjamin Baker, British civil engineer, designer of the Forth Railway Bridge (d. 1907). April births April – William Sykes, English railway signalling engineer (d. 1917). June births June 6 – William Dudley Chipley, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1873–1876 (d. 1897). June 14 – William F. Nast, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway September 1868. June 27 –