1811 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1811.

Births

February births

• February 20 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843–1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847 (d. 1847).

June births

• June 24 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad (d. 1853).

August births

• August – Ginery Twichell, president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad beginning in 1857, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1870–1873 (d. 1883) (Congress Bioguide gives August 26; Waters gives August 22). ^{[1] [2]}

November births

• November 13 – Robert B. Dockray, civil engineer on the London and Birmingham Railway in England (d. 1871).

References

1. "Ginery Twichell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2005.
2. Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 43–44.