1824 in rail transport

none 1823 1824 1825 1820 Events May events May 17 – The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland is authorised; construction begins the following month.Don Martin The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and Associated Railways Strathkelvin District Libraries & Museums Kirkintilloch 1995 0-904966-41-0 October events October 29 - Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, in England, issues its first prospectus.Carlson, Robert E. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway project, 1821–1831 Newton Abbot David & Charles 1969 0-7153-4646-6 December events December 31 - George Stephenson, his son Robert Stephenson, Edward Pease and Michael Longridge form George Stephenson and Company, a railway construction consultancy.Macnair, Miles William James (1771–1837): the man who discovered George Stephenson Railway and Canal Historical Society Oxford 2007 978-0-901461-54-4 Births March births March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California. October births October 2 - Henry C. Lord, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869 (d. 1884).Waters, Lawrence Leslie 1950 Steel Trails to Santa Fe University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kansas November births November 14 – James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896). Unknown date births John Cooke, founder of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Cooke Locomotive Works (d. 1882).White, John H. Jr. 1968 A history of the American locomotive: its development, 1830–1880 Dover Publications New York 0-486-23818-0 References