1816 in rail transport

Last updated March 31, 2024

Years in rail transport

Timeline of railway history

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1816.

Events

Richard Trevithick moves to Peru with the intention of designing and building steam locomotives for mining operations there.

Births

January births

January 3 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863–1868 (d. 1891).

March births

March 1 – John Souther, American steam locomotive manufacturer, founder of Globe Locomotive Works (d. 1911).

August births

August 4 – Russell Sage, American financier, director of Union Pacific Railroad (d. 1906).
August 6 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel (d. 1888).
August 24 – Daniel Gooch, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (England) (d. 1889).

October births

October 8 – Aretas Blood, American steam locomotive manufacturer, owner of Manchester Locomotive Works (d. 1897).

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Russell Crampton</span> British engineer (1816–1888)

Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway.

Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer. He was the first Superintendent of Locomotive Engines on the Great Western Railway from 1837 to 1864 and its chairman from 1865 until his death in 1889.

John Viret Gooch FRSA was the locomotive superintendent of the London and South Western Railway from 1841 to 1850. Born at Bedlington, Northumberland, John Viret Gooch was the son of John and Anna.

References

Newcomb, Kenneth W., The Makers of the Mold . Retrieved February 15, 2005.
(September 24, 2004), Sir Daniel Gooch . Retrieved February 9, 2005.
(September 25, 2004), Thomas Crampton . Retrieved February 9, 2005.
Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.

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