1826 in rail transport

none 1825 1826 1827 1820 Events March events March 4 – Gridley Bryant's Granite Railway is incorporated.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/241709/Granite-Railway Granite Railway Britannica Online Encyclopedia 2008-05-19https://catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnegr1.Html The First Railroad in America Granite City B.P.O.E. – Quincy Lodge No. 943 Catskill Archive 1924 2008-05-19 April events April 1 – Construction begins in Massachusetts on the Granite Railway, one of the first railroads in North America, under the direction of Gridley Bryant. April 17 – The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany and Schenectady, the first in New York State. May events May 5 – Liverpool and Manchester Railway, designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, and which in 1830 is to become the world's first purpose-built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives to be opened, is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.Carlson, Robert E. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831 David & Charles Newton Abbot 1969 0-7153-4646-6 May 26 – Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway in Scotland is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. October events October 1 – Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland.Awdry, Christopher 1990 Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies Patrick Stephens Ltd. Wellingborough 1-85260-049-7 October 7 – The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts. Births January births January 2 – Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911). March births March 4 – Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First transcontinental railroad (d. 1863). April births April 3 – Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (d. 1900).Waters, Lawrence Leslie 1950 Steel Trails to Santa Fe University of Kansas Press Lawrence, Kansas November births November 10 – Oden Bowie, the 34th Governor of the State of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872,Hall Clayton Colman Baltimore: Its History and Its People, vol.3 Lewis Historical Publishing Co. 1912 304–306 https://books.google.com/books?id=DMcLAAAAYAAJ&dq=thomas+fielder+bowie&pg=PA304 founder and first President of the Baltimore and Potomac RailroadHollander Jacob Harry The Financial History of Baltimore AMS Press 1982 978-0-404-61368-6 280Wilson William Bender History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company: With Plan of Organization https://archive.org/details/historypennsylv02wilsgoog Henry T. Coates & Company 1895 333–334 and also president of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway. December births December 1 – William Mahone, American civil engineer and Confederate Army Major General who built the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Norfolk and Western (d. 1895). Unknown date births John P. Laird, Scottish engineer, designer and patentee of the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (d. 1882). Deaths February deaths February 20 – Matthew Murray, English steam engine manufacturer (b. 1765).Chrimes Mike Skempton A. W. Chrimes M M. Cox R. C. Cross-Rudkin P. S. M. Rennison R. W. Ruddock E. C. Murray, Matthew A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers 1 2002 461–462 London Thomas Telford on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers 0-7277-2939-X References