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1805 in rail transport
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1804 1805 1806 1800
Births
June births
June 15 – William Butler Ogden, president of the Chicago and North Western Railway (d. 1877).
August births
August 9 – Joseph Locke, English civil engineer who became Chief Engineer on the Grand Junction Railway (d. 1860).
November births
November 7 – Thomas Brassey, English railway contractor who supervised the construction of more than 6500 miles ( km) of track around the world (d. 1870).Helps, Arthur The Life and Works of Mr Brassey, 1872 republished Nonsuch, 2006 1-84588-011-0
Unknown date births
George S. Griggs, pioneering master mechanic in American steam locomotive manufacturing (d. 1870).
William Swinburne, American locomotive designer and builder (d. 1883).
References
White, John H. Jr. 1968 A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880 Dover Publications, New York, NY 0-486-23818-0