1833 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1833.
Events
February events
- February 15 â The Western Railroad of Massachusetts is chartered to build a railroad between Worcester, Massachusetts, and the New York state line.
March events
- March 15 â Andover and Wilmington Railroad is incorporated to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts.
April events
- April 29 â The Utica and Schenectady Railroad is chartered.
May events
- May 6 â Grand Junction Railway and London and Birmingham Railway are both authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[1]
June events
- June 6 â Andrew Jackson rides the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Ellicott Mills to Baltimore, first US President to travel by rail during his term of office.[2]
September events
- September â Eleazer Lord becomes first president of the Erie Railroad.[3]
November events
- November 8 â The Hightstown rail accident in New Jersey is the first to involve passenger deaths.
December events
- December 17 â Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey opens throughout.
Unknown date events
- Tredegar Iron Works, an American steam locomotive manufacturer, is formed in Virginia.
- The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway operates a wagon ferry on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland.[4]
- Paterson and Hudson River Railroad is chartered.[5]
Births
March births
- March 6 â William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865â1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870â1889, is born (d. 1889).
Deaths
April deaths
- April 22 â Richard Trevithick, English inventor and steam locomotive builder (b. 1771).