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1810 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1810.

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May events

  • May 24 – Monmouth Railway authorised by Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom for a railway or tramroad from the Forest of Dean to Monmouth, on the Welsh Borders, including provision to charge for passengers.

    • Unknown date events

  • The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.

    • January births

  • January 3 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).

    • April births

  • April 15 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
  • April 17 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).

    • June births

  • June 12 – David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).

    • July births

  • July 27 – H. H. Hunnewell, director for Illinois Central Railroad 1862-1871, president of Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, president of Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, is born (died 1902).

    • September births

  • September 19 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).

    • Unknown date births

  • Joseph Harrison, Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (d. 1874).
  • William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1881).

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