1821 in rail transport explained

Events

April event

• April 19 – Stockton and Darlington Railway is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

November event

• November – Henry Robinson Palmer patents a monorail system in England.

Births

May births

• May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1885).

August births

• August 10 – Jay Cooke, financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1905).
• August 17 – John Saxby, English railway signalling engineer (d. 1913).^[1]

October births

• October 21 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900).^[2]

December births

• December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862).

Notes and References

1. Book: Marshall, John. John Marshall (railway historian). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. 2nd. Oxford. Railway and Canal Historical Society. 2003. 0-901461-22-9.
2. Book: Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. Ambrose, Stephen E.. 2000. Touchstone. 0-7432-0317-8. 47–48. registration. A footnote in the text cites the data to "Collis Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley."