1802 in rail transport explained

Events

March events

• March 24 – Andrew Vivian and Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, England, are granted the first British patent for a steam engine for propelling carriages and other purposes.^[1]

June events

• June 3 – Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad authorised under Act of Parliament, the first granted for a public railway in Wales.^[2] Its acquisition of the Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly also makes it the world’s first dock-owning public railway company.^[3]

September events

• September 21 – First traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England.^[4]

Births

January births

• January 10 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway (d. 1860).

February births

• February 2 – Moncure Robinson, builder of the Chesterfield Railroad (d. 1891).

July births

• July 2 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (d. 1867).^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Camborne Hill. Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. 2001. 2010-06-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20080908095836/http://www.oldcornwall.org/camborne_hill.htm. 2008-09-08. dead.
2. Book: Price, M.R.C.. The Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway. Oxford. Oakwood Press. 1992. 0-85361-423-7.
3. Book: Balkwill, Richard. Marshall, John. John Marshall (railway historian). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats. 6th. Enfield. Guinness Publishing. 1993. 0-85112-707-X.
4. Dorian. Gerhold. The rise and fall of the Surrey Iron Railway, 1802–46. Surrey Archaeological Collections. Surrey Archaeological Society. 95. 2010. 193–210.
5. Web site: Norris, William . 2005-02-09 .