1790s in rail transport

none This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1790s. 1790 Events Unknown date events The world's first railway viaduct, which became known as the "Covered Bridge", is built at Blaenavon in South Wales for a horse-worked tramway carrying coal to the ironworks coke ovens. It is 40 m ft on long with 10 arches and 10 m ft on tall.Blaenafon.info http://www.norbiton.com/blaenavon/archaeology.htm 7 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045423/http://www.norbiton.com/blaenavon/archaeology.htm 2007-09-28 dead Time Team – The Lost Viaduct http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/archive/2001ba.html 7 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070810060747/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/archive/2001ba.html 10 August 2007 live 1791 Births Unknown date births John Brandt, American steam locomotive builder (died c. 1860).White, John H. Jr. John H. White, Jr. 1968 A History of the American Locomotive; its development: 1830–1880 Dover Publications New York 0-486-23818-0 1792 Births Unknown date births Thomas Rogers, founder of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (died 1856). 1793 Events Unknown date events The world's oldest surviving railway tunnel is constructed at Fritchley on the "Butterley Gangroad", the Butterley Company's plateway to carry limestone from Hilt's Quarry at Crich to kilns on the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge in Derbyshire, England, by Benjamin Outram. Births Unknown date births Holmes Hinkley, American steam locomotive manufacturer (died 1866). 1794 Births May births May 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American financier who created the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from the merger of several smaller railroads in New York (d. 1877). October births October 22 – Edward Bury, English steam locomotive builder (d. 1858).2004-10-30 https://steamindex.com/people/bury.htm Edward Bury Steamindex 2005-02-09 December births December 14 – Erastus Corning, established railroads in New York and was instrumental in the formation of New York Central (d. 1872). Unknown date births Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1857). 1795 Events Unknown date events A wooden railway on Beacon Hill in Boston carried excavations down the hill to clear the land for the State House Births December births December 10 – Matthias W. Baldwin, American steam locomotive manufacturer (d. 1866). Unknown date births John B. Jervis, Chief mechanical engineer of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad who pioneered the use of the leading truck on steam locomotives (d. 1885). 1796 Births February births February – Morris Ketchum, partner in Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor, director of Illinois Central Railroad (d. 1880)William Addams Reitwiesner Reitwiesner William Addams http://www.wargs.com/political/thorne.html The Ancestors of Julia Stimson Thorne 2005-10-11 April births April 19 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Bohemian-born railway civil engineer (d. 1840) 1797 Births July July 29 – Daniel Drew, board member and financier of the Erie Railroad (d. 1879). Unknown date Asa Whitney, one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway. 1798 Events The Lake Lock Rail Road near Wakefield opens. First known use of cast-iron chaired 'fish-belly' edge-rails, at Walker Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England.Alec Skempton A. W. Skempton A. Andrews Cast Iron Edge-Rails at Walker Colliery 1798 Newcomen Society Transactions 45 1972–1973 110–122 1799 Events April events April 15 – The Earl of Carlisle's waggonway opens from coal pits owned by George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle around Lambley to Brampton, Cumbria, England.Webb, Brian Gordon, David A. Lord Carlisle's Railways Railway Correspondence & Travel Society 1978 0-901115-43-6 Births January births January 23 – Alois Negrelli, builder of the first railway in Switzerland, connecting Zurich and Baden (d. 1858). February births February 28 – William Dargan, Irish railway contractor (d. 1867).Irish Railway Collection Holywood Ulster Folk and Transport Museum 1993 0-902588-50-8 May births May – George Hennet, English railway contractor (d. 1857).Kay Peter Exeter–Newton Abbot: a railway history Platform 5 1991 Sheffield 1-872524-42-7 June births June 22 – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (d. 1872).http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REpease.htm Joseph Pease 6 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817235409/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REpease.htm 2007-08-17 usurped See also Years in rail transport References Rail transport timeline 1790s 1780s in rail transport 1800s in rail transport