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1801 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1801.

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May events

  • May 21 – The Surrey Iron Railway in England is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the first railway company established by statute and independently of a canal company.

    • December events

  • December 24 – Richard Trevithick demonstrates the first full-sized road locomotive to the public, successfully carrying a number of men up Beacon Hill, Camborne in Cornwall.

    • July births

  • July 29 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (d. 1853).

    • September births

  • September 8 – Byron Kilbourn, president of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad 1849-1852 (d. 1870).

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