1824 in rail transport

1824 in rail transport

Events

December events

* December 31 - George Stephenson, his son Robert Stephenson, Edward Pease and Michael Longridge form George Stephenson and Company, a railway construction consultancy. [cite book|author=Macnair, Miles|title=William James (1771-1837): the man who discovered George Stephenson|publisher=Railway & Canal Historical Society|location=Oxford|date=2007|isbn=978-0-901461-54-4]

Births

March births

* March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California

October births

* October 2 - Henry C. Lord, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869. [cite book|author=Waters, Lawrence Leslie|year=1950|title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe|publisher=University of Kansas Press|location=Lawrence, Kansas]

November births

* November 14 - James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).

Unknown date births

* John Cooke, founder of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Cooke Locomotive Works (d. 1882). [cite book|author=White, John H., Jr.|year=1968|title=A history of the American locomotive: its development, 1830-1880|publisher=Dover Publications|location=New York|isbn=0-486-23818-0]

Deaths

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