1826 In Rail Transport

Events

April events

• April 1 - Construction begins in Massachusetts on the Granite Railway under the direction of Gridley Bryant.

October events

• October 7 - The first train operates over the Granit Railway in Massachusetts.

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

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).

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

References

• Virtuology (2001), Gridley Bryant. Retrieved March 30 2005.

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