1808 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1808.
Contents
Events
February events
- February 8 – The Washington Bridge Company is granted authority in Washington, D.C., to build the Long Bridge over the Potomac River, a bridge that will eventually be rebuilt to carry the first railroad tracks to cross the river.[1]
May events
- May 27 – The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first railway line in Scotland authorised by Act of Parliament.[2]
July events
- July 8 through September 18 – Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive Catch Me Who Can is demonstrated in London.
Births
January births
- January 8 – John A. Poor, first president of the Portland Company is born in Andover, Maine (d. 1871).[3]
February births
- February 10 – John Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852-1874 (d. 1874).
March births
- March 19 – Johann Andreas Schubert, builder of the first German steam locomotive, Saxonia, is born in Wernesgrün (d. 1870).
July births
- July 25 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (d. 1895).
Unknown date births
- George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (d. 1884).[4]
Deaths
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