1810 in rail transport

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Years in rail transport

Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1810.

Events

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]

Unknown date events

The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.

Births

January births

January 3 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).^[2]

April births

April 15 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
April 17 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).^[3]

June births

June 12 – David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).

July births

July 27 – H. H. Hunnewell, director for Illinois Central Railroad 1862-1871, president of Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, president of Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, is born (died 1902).

September births

September 19 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).^[2]

Unknown date births

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]

Deaths

Related Research Articles

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References

↑ Davis, J. J. (February 1959). "The Railways of Monmouth". The Railway Magazine . Retrieved July 26, 2011.
1 2 Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. pp. 42, 114.
1 2 3 White, John H. Jr. (1968). A History of the American Locomotive: its development: 1830–1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.

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[1] Davis, J. J. (February 1959). "The Railways of Monmouth". The Railway Magazine . Retrieved July 26, 2011.

[Santa_Fe-2] 1 2 Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. pp. 42, 114.

[White-3] 1 2 3 White, John H. Jr. (1968). A History of the American Locomotive: its development: 1830–1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.

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