1824 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1824.

Events

December 31 - George Stephenson, his son Robert Stephenson, Edward Pease and Michael Longridge form George Stephenson and Company, a railway construction consultancy.^[2]

March 9 - Leland Stanford, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California

November 14 - James Mitchell Ashley, founder and president of Ann Arbor Railroad, is born (d. 1896).

^ Carlson, Robert E. (1969). The Liverpool & Manchester Railway project, 1821-1831. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4646-6.
^ Macnair, Miles (2007). William James (1771-1837): the man who discovered George Stephenson. Oxford: Railway and 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.