1815 in rail transport

1815 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 6 - The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.

July events

* July 31 - The boiler explosion of a locomotive designed by William Brunton on the Newbottle Waggonway in North East England kills around a dozen people, the first railway disaster. [cite book|author=Rees, Jim|coauthors=Guy, Andy|editor=Mountford, Colin E|title=The Private Railways of County Durham|year=2004|publisher=Industrial Railway Society|location=Melton Mowbray|isbn=1-901556-29-8|pages=p.11|chapter=The first industrial locomotives]

Births

Unknown date births

* Daniel McCallum, General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855-1858 (d. 1878).

Deaths

References


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