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1800 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1800.

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  • Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon (senior) to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.

    • March births

  • March 10 - George Hudson, English railway financier, "The Railway King" (d. 1871).

    • July births

  • July 15 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (d. 1878).

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