1827 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1827.
Events
February events
- February 28 - The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is incorporated.
September events
- September 7 - Opening of the first railway in Austro-Hungary, a horse-worked line from České Budějovice to Trojanov (in the present-day Czech Republic).[1]
December events
- December 19 - The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.
Unknown date events
- Claudius Crozet completes surveying a route for the first railroad to be built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad.
- John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the forerunner of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
Births
July births
- July 11 - Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).
September births
- September 27 - Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).
October births
- October 27 - Albert Fink, German-born American civil engineer and railroad manager (d. 1897).