1780s in rail transport
This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1780s.
1780
Births
January births
- January 26 - John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (died 1856).[1]
October births
- October 25 - Philip Hone, first president of Delaware and Hudson Railway 1825-1826 (died 1851).
1781
Births
June births
- June 9 - George Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder.
1782
Births
Unknown date births
- Joseph Treffry (born Joseph Austen), railway promoter in Cornwall, England (died 1850).[2]
1783
Events
- Halbeath Railway opens from the colliery at Halbeath to the harbour at Inverkeithing, Scotland.[3]
1784
Births
- December 30 - Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (died 1864).[4]
1785
Births
Unknown date births
- Sir William Cubitt, civil engineer on the South Eastern and Great Northern Railways of England (died 1861).[5][6]
1786
Births
December births
- December 22 - Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (died 1850).
Unknown date births
- William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (died 1865).
1787
Events
Unknown date events
- First production of all-iron edge rail (for underground colliery use), at Plymouth Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.[7]
- First introduction of plateway (for underground use), at Sheffield Park Colliery, Yorkshire, England, by John Curr.[8]
Births
October births
- October 18 - Robert Livingston Stevens, president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey (died 1856).[9]
1788
Events
Unknown date events
- First introduction of plateway for surface use, at Wingerworth Iron Foundry, Derbyshire, England, by Joseph Butler.[10]
1789
Events
Unknown date events
- Oliver Evans is awarded a U.S. patent for his "steam carriage," a design that is believed by some historians to have influenced Richard Trevithick's work on early steam locomotives.
Births
October births
- October 8 – John Ruggles, awarded U.S. patent 1 for improved driving wheels (died 1874).
Unknown date births
- Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (died 1867)
See also
References
- ^ "Brief biographies of major mechanical engineers". Steam index. Archived from the original on 10 February 2005. Retrieved 2005-02-09.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Simmons, Jack (2004). "Treffry, Joseph Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
- ^ Poustie, Mark. "Halbeath Railway". RailScot. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Marshall, John (2003). A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (2nd ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.
- ^ Brown, Peter. "Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861)". Archived from the original on 24 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ van Laun, John (2001). Early Limestone Railways. London: Newcomen Society. pp. 203–4. ISBN 0-904685-09-8.
- ^ Occasional Paper. 184, 192. Railway and Canal Historical Society, Early Railway Group.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - ^ Today in Science History: October 18. Retrieved October 18, 2005.
- ^ Farey, John (1817). General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire. Vol. 3. London: Board of Agriculture.
- (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.
- White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders". Railroad History. 154: 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. JSTOR 43523785. OCLC 1785797.