1809 in rail transport

none 1808 1809 1810 1810 Events Unknown date events Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.Baxter, Bertram Stone Blocks and Iron Rails https://archive.org/details/stoneblocksironr0000baxt registration David & Charles Newton Abbot 1966 Dr Richard Griffiths opens the "Doctor's Tramroad" connecting collieries with the Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (3.5 mi km on). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives.Stephen Rowson Wright, Ian L. The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals, Volume 2 Lydney Black Dwarf 2004 1-903599-12-1 A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania during the summer.Wilson William Hasell 1895 Philadelphia Allen, Lane & Scott https://archive.org/details/abriefreviewrai00wilsgoog 20 railroad Thomas Leiper 1600-1923. A Brief Review of Railroad History from the Earliest Period to the Year 1894 7 May 2011 http://www.ridleytownshiphistory.com/leiper_canal.htm The Leiper Canal 2011-05-07 May events May – Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.Bellrock.org.uk http://www.bellrock.org.uk 6 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928012048/http://www.bellrock.org.uk/ 28 September 2007 Births February births February 3 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847–1853, is born (d. 1883). August births August 4 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (d. 1889).Brooks, Edward C. Sir Samuel Morton Peto Bt: eminent Victorian, railway entrepreneur, country squire, MP Bury Clerical Society 1996 0-9502988-4-0 October births October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (d. 1886).Marshall, John Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers Railway and Canal Historical Society Oxford 2003 0-901461-22-9 References