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1780s in rail transport

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This article lists events relating to rail transport that occurred during the 1780s.

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January births

  • January 26 - John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (died 1856).

    • October births

  • October 25 - Philip Hone, first president of Delaware and Hudson Railway 1825-1826 (died 1851).

    • June births

  • June 9 - George Stephenson, English steam locomotive builder.

    • Unknown date births

  • Joseph Treffry (born Joseph Austen), railway promoter in Cornwall, England (died 1850).

    • Events

  • Halbeath Railway opens from the colliery at Halbeath to the harbour at Inverkeithing, Scotland.

    • Births

  • December 30 - Stephen H. Long, American steam locomotive mechanical engineer who helped build the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (died 1864).

    • Unknown date births

  • Sir William Cubitt, civil engineer on the South Eastern and Great Northern Railways of England (died 1861).

    • December births

  • December 22 - Timothy Hackworth, English steam locomotive builder (died 1850).

    • Unknown date births

  • William T. James, American inventor of the link motion and spark arrester (died 1865).

    • Unknown date events

  • First production of all-iron edge rail (for underground colliery use), at Plymouth Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
  • First introduction of plateway (for underground use), at Sheffield Park Colliery, Yorkshire, England, by John Curr.

    • October births

  • October 18 - Robert Livingston Stevens, president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad built in New Jersey (died 1856).

    • Unknown date events

  • First introduction of plateway for surface use, at Wingerworth Iron Foundry, Derbyshire, England, by Joseph Butler.

    • Unknown date events

  • Oliver Evans is awarded a U.S. patent for his "steam carriage," a design that is believed by some historians to have influenced Richard Trevithick's work on early steam locomotives.

    • October births

  • October 8 – John Ruggles, awarded U.S. Patent 1 for improved driving wheels (died 1874).

    • Unknown date births

  • Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (died 1867)

    • References

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