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1813 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1813.

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  • Passenger services (by horse-drawn coach) begin on the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the first such service in Scotland.

    • February births

  • February 16 – Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (d. 1892).
  • February 23 – John M. Forbes, president of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (d. 1898).

    • May births

  • May 14 – Charles Beyer, German-British steam locomotive manufacturer, co-founder of Beyer-Peacock (d. 1876).

    • September births

  • September 1 – Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California.
  • September 11 - John Chester Craven, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1847-1870, is born (d. 1887).

    • Unknown date births

  • Wilson Eddy, American steam locomotive manufacturer (d. 1898).

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