1834 in rail transport explained

Events

January events

January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina.^[1]
January 30 – Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.

February events

February 25 – The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.

March events

March 25 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England offers season tickets from this date.^[2]

April events

April 14 – The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.

September events

September 22 – The Leeds and Selby Railway in the north of England is officially opened; at 700yd long, its Marsh Lane tunnel through Richmond Hill, Leeds, near its Marsh Lane terminus is the world's longest railway tunnel at this date and the first through which passengers are hauled by locomotives.^[3]

December events

December 17 – The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin (modern-day Dublin Pearse railway station) and Kingstown (modern-day Dún Laoghaire), on the standard gauge.^[4]

Unknown date events

The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany, New York, and the Massachusetts state line.

Births

April births

April 1 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1872).
April 23 – Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad (d. 1928).

References

Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.

Notes and References

Web site: Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad. North Carolina Railroads. 2021-01-16.
Kentish Gazette.
Book: Dawson, Anthony. Yorkshire's First Main Line: The Leeds & Selby Railway. Market Drayton. Railway and Canal Historical Society. 2020. 978-0-901461-67-4. 21, 25, 65.
Book: Murray, K. A.. Ireland's First Railway. 1981. Irish Railway Record Society. Dublin. 0-904078-07-8.