Suvarna Garge (Editor) Currently I am pursuing PHD, My Interests are Gardening, Learning new things ...1814 in rail transportUpdated on Sign in Covid-19This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1814. July 25 - George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England.
January 21 - Wendel Bollman, American designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (d. 1884).
January 30 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, is born (d. 1896).
May 26 - Wilhelm Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884).
September 11 - John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897).
Andrew Barclay, Scottish steam locomotive builder (d. 1900).
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