1780s in rail transport

none This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1780s. 1780 Births January births January 26 – John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (died 1856).John Urpeth Rastrick steamindex.com https://steamindex.com/people/rastrick.htm 31 March 2024 12 August 2012 October births October 25 – Philip Hone, first president of Delaware and Hudson Railway 1825–1826 (died 1851). 1781 Births June births June 9 – George Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder. 1782 Births Unknown date births Joseph Treffry (born Joseph Austen), railway promoter in Cornwall, England (died 1850).Simmons, Jack Treffry, Joseph Thomas Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/38076 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38076 2010-01-12 1783 Events Halbeath Railway opens from the colliery at Halbeath to the harbour at Inverkeithing, Scotland.http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Halbeath_Railway/frame.htm Mark Poustie Halbeath Railway RailScot 2009-12-16 1784 Births December 30 – Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (died 1864). 1785 Births Unknown date births Sir William Cubitt, civil engineer on the South Eastern and Great Northern Railways of England (died 1861).Marshall John A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers Oxford Railway and Canal Historical Society 2003 2nd 0-901461-22-9Peter Brown Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm 2009-12-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20091224022458/http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm 24 December 2009 live 1786 Births December births December 22 – Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (died 1850).https://steamindex.com/people/hackwort.htm Timothy Hackworth steamindex.com 23 January 2013 31 March 2024 Unknown date births William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (died 1865). 1787 Events Unknown date events First production of all-iron edge rail (for underground colliery use), at Plymouth Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.van Laun John Early Limestone Railways Newcomen Society London 2001 0-904685-09-8 203–4 First introduction of plateway (for underground use), at Sheffield Park Colliery, Yorkshire, England, by John Curr.none Railway and Canal Historical Society, Early Railway Group Occasional Paper 184,192 Births October births October 18 – Robert Livingston Stevens, president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey (died 1856).Today in Science History: October 18. Retrieved October 18, 2005. 1788 Events Unknown date events First introduction of plateway for surface use, at Wingerworth Iron Foundry, Derbyshire, England, by Joseph Butler.Farey, John John Farey Sr. General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire 3 London Board of Agriculture 1817 1789 Events Unknown date events Oliver Evans is awarded a U.S. patent for his "steam carriage," a design that is believed by some historians to have influenced Richard Trevithick's work on early steam locomotives. Births October births October 8 – John Ruggles, awarded 1 for improved driving wheels (died 1874). Unknown date births Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (died 1867) See also Years in rail transport References Rail transport timeline 1780s 1770s in rail transport 1790s in rail transport