1809 in rail transport

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

Events

Unknown date events

• Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania during the summer.^[3][4]

May events

• May - Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.^[5]

Births

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).^[6]

October births

• October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (d. 1886).^[7]

References

1. ↑ Baxter, Bertram (1966). Stone Blocks and Iron Rails. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 
2. ↑ Rowson, Stephen; Wright, Ian L. (2004). The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals, Volume 2. Lydney: Black Dwarf. ISBN 1-903599-12-1. 
3. ↑ Wilson, William Hasell (1895). A Brief Review of Railroad History from the Earliest Period to the Year 1894. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott. Retrieved 7 May 2011. 
4. ↑ "The Leiper Canal". Retrieved 2011-05-07. 
5. ↑ "Bellrock.org.uk". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2007. 
6. ↑ Brooks, Edward C. (1996). Sir Samuel Morton Peto Bt: eminent Victorian, railway entrepreneur, country squire, MP. Bury Clerical Society. ISBN 0-9502988-4-0. 
7. ↑ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.