1802 in rail transport

none 1801 1802 1803 1800 Events March events March 24 – Andrew Vivian and Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, England, are granted the first British patent for a steam engine for propelling carriages and other purposes.http://www.oldcornwall.org/camborne_hill.htm Camborne Hill Federation of Old Cornwall Societies 2001 2010-06-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20080908095836/http://www.oldcornwall.org/camborne_hill.htm 2008-09-08 dead June events June 3 – Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad authorised under Act of Parliament, the first granted for a public railway in Wales.M.R.C. Price The Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway Oxford Oakwood Press 1992 0-85361-423-7 Its acquisition of the Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly also makes it the world’s first dock-owning public railway company.Richard Balkwill Marshall, John John Marshall (railway historian) The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats 6th Enfield Guinness Publishing 1993 0-85112-707-X September events September 21 – First traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England.Dorian Gerhold The rise and fall of the Surrey Iron Railway, 1802–46 Surrey Archaeological Collections Surrey Archaeological Society 95 2010 193–210 Births January births January 10 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway (d. 1860). February births February 2 – Moncure Robinson, builder of the Chesterfield Railroad (d. 1891). July births July 2 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (d. 1867).https://steamindex.com/people/american.htm#norris Norris, William 2005-02-09 References