Plan of 1868 for an " arcade railway ".

The railway arrived in 1868, off-setting the decline in coaching since the 1840s.

* 1868 – George Westinghouse invented the compressed-air brake for railway trains.

From 1847 to the opening of the current Carshalton in 1868 Wallington railway station was named Carshalton.

The Ordnance Survey Map of 1868 shows the Museum building with a rifle range at the rear extending along the side of the railway

Major development of the area further east did not come until the opening of Tulse Hill railway station in 1868.

Transport links expanded further with new railway lines to Croydon ( Wimbledon and Croydon Railway, opened in 1855 ) and Tooting ( Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon Railway, opened in 1868 ).

The railway station was inaugurated 1 May 1868 to service the Groningen-Winschoten-Nieuweschans line.

Houten has two railway stations, Houten ( opened in 1868, closed in 1935, re-opened on a different location in 1982 and restructured in 2010 ) and Houten Castellum ( opened in 2010 ).

Zoetermeer-Zegwaard, built when the city was connected by railway in 1868, burnt down in 1906.

* The 122-room Palace Hotel, built in 1868, is a prominent feature of the Buxton skyline, situated on the hill above the railway station.

He was employed as a station master and Manager of the Van Railway at Caersws railway station from 1868 until his death in 1887.

The installation of the railway in 1868, however, brought with it an influx of people into Monte Carlo and saw it grow in wealth.

He also said in his statement to the court that he had built over of railway viaduct, referring to his design of the elevated railroad in New York in 1868, some of which still survives in Manhattan ( unused ).

The first mountain cog railway was the Mount Washington Cog Railway in the US state of New Hampshire, which carried its first fare-paying passengers in 1868 and reached the summit of Mount Washington in 1869.

The Mount Washington railway opened to the public on August 14, 1868.

The station opened on 10 May 1847 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as ' Carshalton ' on the new Croydon to Epsom railway and was renamed to ' Wallington ' in 1868 when the new Carshalton railway station opened in Carshalton village.

On December 10, 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J. P. Knight.

The Dechenhöhle was discovered in 1868 during the construction of the railway line Hagen-Iserlohn.

In the second half of the 19th century, the construction of the Rīga-Pskov highway ( 1868 ) and the Rīga-Valka railway line ( 1889 ) accelerated the development of the town.

Govan railway station opened on 2 December 1868.

It has been strongly influenced by the three mainline north London railway termini: Euston ( 1838 ), St. Pancras ( 1868 ) and Kings Cross ( 1852 ), together with the Midland Railway Somers Town Goods Depot ( 1887 ) next to St Pancras, where the British Library now stands.

Chester-le-Street railway station, on the East Coast Main Line of the National Rail network, between Newcastle and Durham, opened in 1868.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

In 1868, however, a truce was called between the companies, and the partnership of Darling, Brown & Sharpe was formed.

The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.

The first productive period came when he was considering poetry as a vocation, before he had decided to write fiction for a living ( in his note for Who's Who he wrote that he `` wrote verses 1865 - 1868 ; ;

" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

The turning point for Ainu culture was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868, and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century.

The general account of the travels of the two brothers was published by Arnaud in 1868 under the title of Douze ans dans la Haute Ethiopie.

In 1868 Pertevniyal was living in the Dolmabahçe Palace.

New administrative districts ( vilayets ) were set up in 1864 and a Council of State was established in 1868.

Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and his family were – in 1868 – exiled to the penal colony of Acre, Palestine where it was expected that the family would perish.

In 1868 a Michaux cycle was brought to Coventry, England by Rowley Turner, sales agent of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company ( which soon became the Coventry Machinist Company ).

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

This was brought about by Palmerston's death in 1865 and Russell's retirement in 1868.

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

As prime minister 1868 to 1874 he headed a Liberal Party that was a coalition of Peelites like himself, Whigs and radicals ; Gladstone was now a spokesman for " peace, economy and reform.