1808 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1808.
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[edit] Events
[edit] February events
- February 8 – The Washington Bridge Company is granted authority in Washington, D.C., to build the Long Bridge over the Potomac River, a bridge that will eventually be rebuilt to carry the first railroad tracks to cross the river.[1]
[edit] May events
- May 27 – The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first railway line in Scotland authorised by Act of Parliament.[2]
[edit] July events
- July 8 through September 18 – Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive Catch Me Who Can is demonstrated in London.
[edit] Births
[edit] February births
- February 10 – John Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852-1874 (d. 1874).
[edit] March births
- March 19 – Johann Andreas Schubert, builder of the first German steam locomotive, Saxonia, is born in Wernesgrün (d. 1870).
[edit] Unknown date births
- George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (d. 1884).[3]
[edit] Deaths
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[edit] References
- ^ Washington, D.C., Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. "Washington, D.C. Railroad History". Archived from the original on February 5, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060205100435/http://www.dcnrhs.org/dc_rail_history.htm. Retrieved February 8, 2006.
- ^ Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways: a short history of their origin & development, 1801-1844. London: Locomotive Publishing Co.
- ^ "George Muirson Totten". Archived from the original on 04 February 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050204143715/http://www.trainweb.org/panama/totten.html. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
