1834 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1834.
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[edit] Events
[edit] January events
- January 30 - Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.
[edit] February events
- February 25 - The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.
[edit] April events
- April 14 - The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.
[edit] December events
- December 17 - The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin (now Dublin Pearse railway station) and Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), on the standard gauge.[1]
[edit] Unknown date events
- The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad begins construction in North Carolina.
- The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany, New York and the Massachusetts state line.
[edit] Births
[edit] April births
- April 1 - Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1872).
- April 23 - Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad (d. 1928).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History - January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.
- ^ Murray, K. A. (1981). Ireland's First Railway. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society. ISBN 0-904078-07-8.
