1808 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1808.
Events
February events
- February 8 â The Washington Bridge Company is granted authority in Washington, D.C., to build the Long Bridge over the Potomac River, a bridge that will eventually be rebuilt to carry the first railroad tracks to cross the river.[1]
May events
- May 27 â The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first railway line in Scotland authorised by Act of Parliament.[2]
July events
- July 8 through September 18 â Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive Catch Me Who Can is demonstrated in London.
Births
January births
- January 8 â John A. Poor, first president of the Portland Company is born in Andover, Maine (d. 1871).[3]
February births
- February 10 â John Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852-1874 (d. 1874).
March births
- March 19 â Johann Andreas Schubert, builder of the first German steam locomotive, Saxonia, is born in Wernesgrün (d. 1870).
May births
- May 12 â Joseph Hamilton Beattie, locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway 1850â1871 (d. 1871), is born.[4]
July births
- July 25 â Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (d. 1895).
Unknown date births
- George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (d. 1884).[5]