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Events
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January events
January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina.https://www.carolana.com/NC/Transportation/railroads/nc_rrs_wilmington_raleigh.html North Carolina Railroads Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad 2021-01-16
January 30 – Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.
February events
February 25 – The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.
March events
March 25 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England offers season tickets from this date.Kentish Gazette.
April events
April 14 – The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.
September events
September 22 – The Leeds and Selby Railway in the north of England is officially opened; at 700 yd m long, its Marsh Lane tunnel through Richmond Hill, Leeds, near its Marsh Lane terminus is the world's longest railway tunnel at this date and the first through which passengers are hauled by locomotives.Yorkshire's First Main Line: The Leeds & Selby Railway Anthony Dawson Market Drayton Railway and Canal Historical Society 2020 978-0-901461-67-4 21, 25, 65
December events
December 17 – The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin (modern-day Dublin Pearse railway station) and Kingstown (modern-day Dún Laoghaire), on the standard gauge.Murray K. A. Ireland's First Railway 1981 Irish Railway Record Society Dublin 0-904078-07-8
Unknown date events
The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany, New York, and the Massachusetts state line.
Births
April births
April 1 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1872).
April 23 – Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad (d. 1928).
References
Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.