1831 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1831.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 April events 1.2 May events 1.3 June events 1.4 July events 1.5 August events 1.6 September events 1.7 November events 1.8 Unknown date events 2 Births 2.1 March births 2.2 August births 2.3 Unknown date births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] April events

• April 23 - the Pontchartrain Rail-Road begins operation.
• April 25
  • Matthias W. Baldwin displays a model steam locomotive at the Philadelphia City Museum a year before building his first full-size locomotive for a working railroad.^[1]
  • The New York and Harlem Railroad is incorporated.

[edit] May events

• May - Members of a Manchester (England) Sunday School are conveyed by a special train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Liverpool, the first recorded private railway excursion.^[2]

[edit] June events

• June 17 - The first boiler explosion in the United States occurs when the engineer on the Best Friend of Charleston ties the steam safety pressure release valve shut.^[3]
• June 18 - The John Bull is constructed by Robert Stephenson and Company in England.
• June 21 - The Boston and Providence Rail Road is incorporated and chartered to build a railroad connection between Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
• June 23 - The Boston and Worcester Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between its namesake cities in Massachusetts.

[edit] July events

• July 14 - The John Bull departs Liverpool aboard the steamship Allegheny bound for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[edit] August events

• August 9 - The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, the first railroad built in New York state, opens.

[edit] September events

• September 4 - The John Bull arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Liverpool.
• September 15 - The John Bull is operated for the first time on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
• September 24 - The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad opens between Albany and Schenectady, New York.

[edit] November events

• November 12 - Robert L. Stevens, president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad hosts a demonstration run of the John Bull for New Jersey politicians and dignitaries.

[edit] Unknown date events

• The first railroad built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad, begins operations.
• The New York and Harlem Railroad is incorporated to build a passenger railroad between its namesake cities.
• John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, a predecessor of the New York Central.

[edit] Births

[edit] March births

• March - Robert F. Fairlie, Scottish steam locomotive builder (d. 1885).^[4]
• March 3 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, founder of the Pullman Company (d. 1897)

[edit] August births

• August 26 - T. Jefferson Coolidge, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1880–1881 (d. 1920).^[5]

[edit] Unknown date births

• Eli H. Janney, inventor of the knuckle coupler (d. 1912).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9-15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797. 

1. ^ Mitchell, Frank (March 1999). M. W. Baldwin. Retrieved on 2005-02-15.
2. ^ Thomas, R. H. G. (1980). The Liverpool & Manchester Railway. London: Batsford, p. 195. ISBN 0-7134-0537-6. 
3. ^ Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History - June. Retrieved June 13, 2005.
4. ^ Robert Francis Fairlie. Retrieved February 9, 2005.
5. ^ The Political Graveyard (March 10, 2005), Politicians in Railroading in Massachusetts. Retrieved December 29, 2005.