1827 in rail transport

1827 in rail transport

Events

February events

* February 28 - The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is incorporated.

eptember events

* September 7 - Opening of the first railway in Austro-Hungary, a horse-worked line from České Budějovice to Trojanov (in the present-day Czech Republic). [cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=The Guinness Railway Book|date=1989|publisher=Guinness|location=Enfield|isbn=0-85112-359-7]

December events

* December 19 - The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.

Unknown date events

* Claudius Crozet completes surveying a route for the first railroad to be built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad.
* John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the forerunner of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

Births

July births

* July 11 - Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).

eptember births

* September 27 - Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).

Deaths

References


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