This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1790s.
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1790
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edit- John Brandt, American steam locomotive builder (died c. 1860).[3]
1792
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edit- Thomas Rogers, founder of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (died 1856).[3]
1793
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edit- The world's oldest surviving railway tunnel is constructed at Fritchley on the "Butterley Gangroad", the Butterley Company's plateway to carry limestone from Hilt's Quarry at Crich to kilns on the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge in Derbyshire, England, by Benjamin Outram.
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edit- Holmes Hinkley, American steam locomotive manufacturer (died 1866).[3]
1794
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edit- May 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller railroads in New York (d. 1877).
October births
edit- October 22 – Edward Bury, English steam locomotive builder (d. 1858).[4]
December births
edit- December 14 – Erastus Corning, established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (d. 1872).
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edit- Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1857).
1795
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edit- A wooden railway on Beacon Hill in Boston carried excavations down the hill to clear the land for the State House
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edit- December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, American steam locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866).
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edit- John B. Jervis, Chief mechanical engineer of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad who pioneered the use of the leading truck on steam locomotives (d. 1885).
1796
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edit- February – Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1880)[5]
April births
edit- April 19 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Bohemian-born railway civil engineer (d. 1840)
1797
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edit- July 29 – Daniel Drew, board member and financier of the Erie Railroad (d. 1879).
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edit- Asa Whitney, one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway.
1798
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edit- The Lake Lock Rail Road near Wakefield opens.
- First known use of cast-iron chaired 'fish-belly' edge-rails, at Walker Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England.[6]
1799
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edit- April 15 – The Earl of Carlisle's waggonway opens from coal pits owned by George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle around Lambley to Brampton, Cumbria, England.[7]
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edit- January 23 – Alois Negrelli, builder of the first railway in Switzerland, connecting Zurich and Baden (d. 1858).
February births
edit- February 28 – William Dargan, Irish railway contractor (d. 1867).[8]
May births
edit- May – George Hennet, English railway contractor (d. 1857).[9]
June births
edit- June 22 – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (d. 1872).[10]
See also
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edit- ^ "Blaenafon.info". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 7 September 2007.
- ^ "Time Team – The Lost Viaduct". Archived from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2007.
- ^ a b c White, John H. Jr. (1968). A History of the American Locomotive; its development: 1830–1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
- ^ "Edward Bury". Steamindex. 2004-10-30. Retrieved 2005-02-09.
- ^ Reitwiesner, William Addams. "The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne". Retrieved 2005-10-11.
- ^ Skempton, A. W.; Andrews, A. (1972–73). "Cast Iron Edge-Rails at Walker Colliery 1798". Newcomen Society Transactions. 45: 110–122.
- ^ Webb, Brian; Gordon, David A. (1978). Lord Carlisle's Railways. Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-43-6.
- ^ Irish Railway Collection. Holywood: Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. 1993. ISBN 0-902588-50-8.
- ^ Kay, Peter (1991). Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history. Sheffield: Platform 5. ISBN 1-872524-42-7.
- ^ "Joseph Pease". Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. Retrieved 6 September 2007.