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1821 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1821.

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April event

  • April 19 - Stockton and Darlington Railway is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

    • November event

  • November - Henry Robinson Palmer patents a monorail system in England.

    • May births

  • May 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1885).

    • August births

  • August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1905).
  • August 17 - John Saxby, English railway signalling engineer (d. 1913).

    • October births

  • October 21 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900).

    • December births

  • December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862).

    • References

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