1786 in rail transport

Years in rail transport:	1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789
Centuries:	17th century · 18th century · 19th century
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years:	1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789

Births

December births

• December 22 - Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (d. 1850).

Unknown date births

• William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (d. 1865).

See also

• Years in rail transport

References

• (September 22, 2004), Timothy Hackworth. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
• White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.