1826 in rail transport

1826 in rail transport

Events

March events

* March 4 - Gridley Bryant's Granite Railway is incorporated.cite web| url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/241709/Granite-Railway| title=Granite Railway| work=Britannica Online Encyclopedia| accessdate=2008-05-19| ] cite web| url=http://catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnegr1.Html| title=The First Railroad in America| publisher=Granite City B.P.O.E. - Quincy Lodge No. 943| work=Catskill Archive| year=1924| accessdate=2008-05-19| ]

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 is chartered to build a railroad between Albany and Schenectady, the first in New York State.

October events

* October 1 - Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland. [cite book|author=Awdry, Christopher|date=1990|title=Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies|publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd|location=Wellingborough|isbn=1-85260-049-7]
* October 7 - The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.

Unknown date events

* The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, and which in 1830 is to become the world's first purpose built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives to be opened, is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Births

January births

* January 2 - Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911).

March births

* March 4 - Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (d. 1863).

April births

* April 3 - Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (d. 1900). [cite book|author=Waters, Lawrence Leslie|year=1950|title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe|publisher=University of Kansas Press|location=Lawrence, Kansas]

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).

Unknown date births

* John P. Laird, Scottish engineer who designed and patented the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (d. 1882).

Deaths

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