1810 in rail transport explained

Events

May events

• May 24 – Monmouth Railway authorised by Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom for a railway or tramroad from the Forest of Dean to Monmouth, on the Welsh Borders, including provision to charge for passengers.^[1]

Unknown date events

• The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.

Births

January births

• January 3 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).^[2]

April births

• April 15 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
• April 17 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).^[3]

June births

• June 12 – David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).

July births

• July 27  - H. H. Hunnewell, director for Illinois Central Railroad 1862-1871, president of Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, president of Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, is born (died 1902).

September births

• September 19 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).^[2]

Unknown date births

• Joseph Harrison Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (d. 1874).^[3]
• William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1881).^[3]

Notes and References

1. J. J.. Davis. The Railways of Monmouth. . 2011-07-26 . February 1959.
2. Book: Waters, Lawrence L.. Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press. Lawrence. 1950. 42, 114.
3. Book: White, John H. Jr.. 1968. A History of the American Locomotive: its development: 1830–1880. Dover Publications. New York. 0-486-23818-0.