1810 in rail transport
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Events
May events
- May 24 â 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 â Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869â1870 (d. 1870).[2]
April births
- April 15 â Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
- April 17 â Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).[3]
June births
- June 12 â David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).
July births
- July 27 â 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 â Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874â1880 (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]