1750s in rail transport

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1740s .1750s in rail transport. 1760s
Other topics:  archaeology

This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1750s.

Contents

1755

Births

September births

1756

Births

February births

  • February 23 – Franz Josef Gerstner, pioneering Austrian railway engineer and physicist (died 1832).

1758

Events

June events

See also

References

  1. Bushell, J. (1975). The World’s Oldest Railway: a history of the Middleton Railway. Sheffield: Turntable Publications. ISBN   0-902844-27-X.
  2. Paley, W. B. (1910). "The first railway Act". Locomotive: 49–50, 76.
  3. Sharman, Frank A. (1975). "The first railway Act?". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society . 21: 47–9.
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1740s in rail transport
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1750s
Succeeded by