1826 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1826.
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[edit] Events
[edit] March events
- March 4 - Gridley Bryant's Granite Railway is incorporated.
[edit] April events
- April 1 - Construction begins in Massachusetts on the Granite Railway, one of the first railroads in North America, under the direction of Gridley Bryant.
- April 17 - The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, the first railroad built in New York state, is incorporated.
[edit] October events
- October 7 - The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, and which in 1830 became the world's first purpose built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives to be opened, was authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
[edit] Births
[edit] January births
- January 2 - Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911).
[edit] March births
- March 4 - Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (d. 1863).
[edit] April births
- April 3 - Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (d. 1900).
[edit] December births
- December 1 - William Mahone, American civil engineer and Confederate Army Major General who built the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Norfolk and Western (d. 1895).
[edit] Unknown date births
- John P. Laird, Scottish engineer who designed and patented the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (d. 1882).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- Virtuology (2001), Gridley Bryant. Retrieved March 30, 2005.
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
- White, John H., Jr., (Spring 1986), America's most noteworthy railroaders, Railroad History, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 154, p. 9-15.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
