1790s in rail transport
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This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1790s.
1790
Events
Unknown date events
- The world's first railway viaduct, which became known as the "Covered Bridge", is built at Blaenavon in South Wales for a horse-worked tramway carrying coal to the ironworks coke ovens. It is 40 m (130 ft) long with 10 arches and 10 m (33 ft) tall.[1][2]
1791
Births
Unknown date births
- John Brandt, American steam locomotive builder (died c. 1860).[3]
1792
Births
Unknown date births
- Thomas Rogers, founder of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (died 1856).[3]
1793
Events
Unknown date events
- 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.
Births
Unknown date births
- Holmes Hinkley, American steam locomotive manufacturer (died 1866).[3]
1794
Births
May births
- May 27 – New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller railroads in New York(d. 1877).
October births
- October 22 – Edward Bury, English steam locomotive builder (d. 1858).[4]
December births
- December 14 – New York Central(d. 1872).
Unknown date births
- Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1857).
1795
Events
Unknown date events
- A wooden railway on State House
Births
December births
- December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, American steam locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866).
Unknown date births
- Mohawk and Hudson Railroad who pioneered the use of the leading truck on steam locomotives(d. 1885).
1796
Births
February births
- February – Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1880)[5]
April births
- April 19 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Bohemian-born railway civil engineer (d. 1840)
1797
Births
July
- July 29 – Daniel Drew, board member and financier of the Erie Railroad (d. 1879).
Unknown date
- Transcontinental Railway.
1798
Events
- 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
Events
April events
- April 15 – The Earl of Carlisle's waggonway opens from coal pits owned by Brampton, Cumbria, England.[7]
Births
January births
- January 23 – Zurich and Baden(d. 1858).
February births
- February 28 – William Dargan, Irish railway contractor (d. 1867).[8]
May births
- May – George Hennet, English railway contractor (d. 1857).[9]
June births
- June 22 – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (d. 1872).[10]
See also
- Years in rail transport
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 0-901115-43-6.
- ISBN 0-902588-50-8.
- ISBN 1-872524-42-7.
- ^ "Joseph Pease". Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. Retrieved 6 September 2007.