1828 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1828.

Events

February events

• February – The Chesterfield Railroad, the first railroad built in Virginia is chartered.

March events

• March 24 – Pennsylvania's first state-owned railway, the Philadelphia and Columbia Railway, is authorized by the state legislature.^[1]

July events

• July 4 – Construction begins on the
  Baltimore, Maryland, when Charles Carroll of Carrollton lays the first stone for the Carrollton Viaduct, the first stone masonry railroad bridge in the United States
  .

• August 1 – The Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
• August 27 – The 67 km (42 mi)
  Andrézieux-Roanne line is authorized in France
  .

• October 1 – The first public railway in
  Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux. It is horse-worked and initially carries freight traffic only.^{[2][page needed}
  ]

• The
  Hudson and Berkshire Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Chatham, New York, and Hudson, New York
  .

• October 30 – Horatio G. Brooks, founder of Brooks Locomotive Works (d. 1887).^[3]

Deaths

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References