1815 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1815.
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[edit] Events
[edit] February events
- February 6 - The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.
[edit] July events
- July 31 - The boiler explosion of a locomotive designed by William Brunton on the Newbottle Waggonway in North East England kills around a dozen people, the first railway disaster.[1]
[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 24 - Edward Entwistle, first driver of the Rocket locomotive.[2]
[edit] Unknown date births
- Daniel McCallum, General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855-1858 (d. 1878).
[edit] Deaths
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[edit] References
- ^ Rees, Jim; Guy, Andy (2004). "The first industrial locomotives". In Mountford, Colin E. The Private Railways of County Durham. Melton Mowbray: Industrial Railway Society. p. 11. ISBN 1-901556-29-8.
- ^ "England's first engine-driver". Otago Witness (National Library of New Zealand). 7 August 1907. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW19070807.2.256.2. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
