1810 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1810.
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[edit] Events
[edit] May events
- May 24 - Monmouth Railway authorised by Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom for a railway or tramroad from the Forest of Dean to Monmouth, on the Welsh Borders, including provision to charge for passengers.[1]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.
[edit] Births
[edit] January births
- January 3 - Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).[2]
[edit] April births
- April 15 - Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
[edit] June births
- June 12 - David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).
[edit] September births
- September 19 - Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).[2]
[edit] Unknown date births
- Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).[3]
- Joseph Harrison, Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (d. 1874).[3]
- William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1881).[3]
[edit] Deaths
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[edit] References
- ^ Davis, J. J. (February 1959). "The Railways of Monmouth". The Railway Magazine. http://www.urban75.org/photos/wales/wye_valley.html. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
- ^ a b Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. pp. 42, 114.
- ^ a b c White, John H., Jr. (1968). A History of the American Locomotive: its development: 1830-1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
