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1800 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1800.
== Events ==
Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon (senior) to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.
== Births ==
=== March births ===
March 10 – George Hudson, English railway financier, "The Railway King" (d. 1871).
=== July births ===
July 15 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (d. 1878).
July 29 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (d. 1853).
== References ==