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1809 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1809.

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Unknown date events

  • Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.
  • Dr Richard Griffiths opens the "Doctor's Tramroad" connecting collieries with the Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (3.5 mi (5.6 km)). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives.
  • A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania during the summer.

    • May events

  • May - Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.

    • February births

  • February 3 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847-1853, is born (d. 1883).

    • August births

  • August 4 - Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (d. 1889).

    • October births

  • October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (d. 1886).

    • References

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