1827 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1827.
Events
[edit]February events
[edit]- February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is incorporated.
May events
[edit]- May 5 – Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway opened by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in the United States.
June events
[edit]- June 30 - the Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux Railway, the first railway line in France and continental Europe begins to operate.
September events
[edit]- September 7 – Opening of the first railway in Austria-Hungary, a horse-worked line from České Budějovice to Trojanov (in the present-day Czech Republic).[1][page needed]
December events
[edit]- December 19 – The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.
Unknown date events
[edit]- 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
[edit]April births
[edit]- April 1 – Thomas Seavey Hall, American inventor of railroad signalling systems (d. 1880).
July births
[edit]- July 11 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).
September births
[edit]- September 27 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).
October births
[edit]- October 27 – Albert Fink, German-born American civil engineer and railroad manager (d. 1897).
Deaths
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References
[edit]- ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.