1809 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Sidebar". This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1809.
Events
Unknown date events
- Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.[1]
- Dr Richard Griffiths opens the "Doctor's Tramroad" connecting collieries with the Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (Script error: No such module "convert".). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives.[2]
- A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania during the summer.[3][4]
May events
- May – Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.[5]
Births
February births
- February 3 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847–1853, is born (d. 1883).
August births
- August 4 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (d. 1889).[6]
October births
- October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (d. 1886).[7]
Deaths
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References
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