1826 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1826.
Events
March events
- March 4 â Gridley Bryant's Granite Railway is incorporated.[1][2]
April events
- April 1 â Construction begins in Massachusetts on the Granite Railway, one of the first railroads in North America, under the direction of Gridley Bryant.[2]
- April 17 â The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany and Schenectady, the first in New York State.
May events
- May 5 â Liverpool and Manchester Railway, designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, and which in 1830 is to become the world's first purpose-built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives to be opened, is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[3]
- May 26 â Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway in Scotland is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[4]
October events
- October 1 â Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland.[5]
- October 7 â The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.[1][2]
Births
January births
- January 2 â Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911).
March births
- March 4 â Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First transcontinental railroad (d. 1863).
April births
- April 3 â Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (d. 1900).[6]
November births
- November 10 â Oden Bowie, the 34th Governor of the State of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872,[7] founder and first President of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad[8][9] and also president of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway.[8]
December births
- December 1 â William Mahone, American civil engineer and Confederate Army Major General who built the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Norfolk and Western (d. 1895).
Unknown date births
- John P. Laird, Scottish engineer, designer and patentee of the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (d. 1882).
Deaths
February deaths
- February 20 â Matthew Murray, English steam engine manufacturer (b. 1765).[10]