1800 in rail transport explained

Events

• Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon (senior) to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.^[1]

Births

March births

• March 10 – George Hudson, English railway financier, "The Railway King" (d. 1871).^[2]

July births

• July 15 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (d. 1878).
• July 29 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (d. 1853).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Coatbridge & Airdrie . 2009-12-15 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080723173034/https://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk/monklands.htm . 2008-07-23 .
2. Book: Peacock, A. J.. George Hudson 1800–1971: the Railway King, vol. 1. author. York. 1988. 0-9513280-1-8.