1824 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1824.
Events
May events
- May 17 – The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland is authorised; construction begins the following month.[1]
October events
- October 29 - Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, in England, issues its first prospectus.[2]
December events
- December 31 - Edward Pease and Michael Longridge form George Stephenson and Company, a railway construction consultancy.[3]
Births
March births
- March 9 - The Big Four group of financiers in California.
October births
- October 2 - Henry C. Lord, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869 (d. 1884).[4]
November births
- November 14 – Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).
Unknown date births
- Cooke Locomotive Works (d. 1882).[5]
Deaths
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References
- ISBN 0-904966-41-0.
- ISBN 0-7153-4646-6.
- ISBN 978-0-901461-54-4.
- ^ Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
- ISBN 0-486-23818-0.