1809 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1809.

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Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.^[1]
Dr Richard Griffiths opens the "Doctor's Tramroad" connecting collieries with the Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (3.5 mi (5.6 km)). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives.^[2]
A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania during the summer.^[3]^[4]

May - Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.^[5]

^ Baxter, Bertram (1966). Stone Blocks and Iron Rails. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
^ Rowson, Stephen; Wright, Ian L. (2004). The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals, Volume 2. Lydney: Black Dwarf. ISBN 0-903599-12-1.
^ Wilson, William Hasell (1895). A Brief Review of Railroad History from the Earliest Period to the Year 1894. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott. http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN05038181&id=AAWGNaNWVrYC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=railroad+%22Thomas+Leiper%22+date:1600-1923&num=100. Retrieved 07 May 2011.
^ "The Leiper Canal". http://www.ridleytownshiphistory.com/leiper_canal.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
^ "Bellrock.org.uk". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928012048/http://www.bellrock.org.uk/. Retrieved 06 September 2007.
^ Brooks, Edward C. (1996). Sir Samuel Morton Peto Bt: eminent Victorian, railway entrepreneur, country squire, MP. Bury Clerical Society. ISBN 0950298826.
^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.