1824 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1824.
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[edit] Events
[edit] December events
- December 31 - George Stephenson, his son Robert Stephenson, Edward Pease and Michael Longridge form George Stephenson and Company, a railway construction consultancy.[1]
[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California
[edit] October births
- October 2 - Henry C. Lord, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1868–1869.[2]
[edit] November births
- November 14 - James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).
[edit] Unknown date births
- John Cooke, founder of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Cooke Locomotive Works (d. 1882).[3]
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Macnair, Miles (2007). William James (1771-1837): the man who discovered George Stephenson. Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-54-4.
- ^ Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press.
- ^ White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive: its development, 1830-1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.