1800 in rail transport
Events
- Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon (senior) to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.[1]
Births
March births
- March 10 – George Hudson, English railway financier, "The Railway King" (d. 1871).[2]
July births
- July 15 – Sidney Breese, U.S. senator from Illinois known as the "father of the Illinois Central Railroad" (d. 1878).
- July 29 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer, printer and publisher and the originator of the railway timetable (d. 1853).
References
- "Coatbridge & Airdrie". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- Peacock, A. J. (1988). George Hudson 1800–1971: the Railway King, vol. 1. York: author. ISBN 0-9513280-1-8.
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