1830 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1830.

Years in rail transport

Events

January events

January 7 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road opens its first section, 1 ¹⁄₂ miles (2.4 km), in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A..
January 9 – Ground is broken in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first railroad to use steam locomotives in South Carolina, the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road.

February events

February 4 – The Camden and Amboy Rail Road, the first railroad to be built in New Jersey, is chartered.

March events

March 15 – The New Orleans, Louisiana, City Council approves the right of way for the construction of the Pontchartrain Rail-Road.

May events

May 3 – Ceremonial opening of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England. The steam locomotive Invicta is used on a level section of the route.[1]
May 22 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road completes construction on the line between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
May 24 – The first revenue trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road operate between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, a distance of 13 miles (21 km).

August events

Slightly fanciful contemporary depiction of Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Construction begins on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
August 28 – In a race between the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road's Tom Thumb and a stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, the horse and coach wins.[2][3]

September events

September 15 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first purpose built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives, opens in England from Liverpool Road, Manchester, to Edge Hill, Liverpool.
September 18 – Robert Stephenson is appointed to survey the London and Birmingham Railway.[4]

November events

November 11 – The first transit of mail via railways occurs between Liverpool and Manchester, England.[5]

December events

December 25 – The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road begins operations.

Unknown date events

The Boston and Maine Railroad is formed to build a railroad between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine.

Births

January births

January 2 – Henry Morrison Flagler, visionary and builder of Florida East Coast Railway (d. 1913).
January 30 – Thomas Fremantle, director of London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1868 and chairman 1896–1908 (d. 1918).

April births

April 5 (probable date) – Robert F. Fairlie, Scottish-born steam locomotive designer (d. 1885).[6]

July births

July 29 – Robert Harris, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1884-1888 (d. 1894).[7]

Deaths

September deaths

September 15 – William Huskisson, the popular MP for Liverpool, at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, misjudges the speed of the approaching locomotive Rocket and is run over, becoming the world's first railway passenger fatality (b. 1770).

gollark: The Doom Collider

gollark: Suggested xkcd telescope names: The Very Large Telescope ☑ The Extremely Large Telescope ☑ The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ☑ (Canceled) The Oppressively Colossal Telescope ☐ The Mind-numbingly Vast Telescope ☐ The Despair Telescope ☐ The Cataclysmic Telescope ☐ The Telescope of Devastation ☐ The Nightmare Scope ☐ The Infinite Telescope ☐ The Final Telescope ☐ I propose these names for colliders:The Oppressively Colossal Collider

gollark: Future Circular Collider is an awful name.

gollark: Modern computers are theoretically a few thousand times faster but thanks to the power of bloatware mostly run at the same apparent speeds.

gollark: Well, everything was worse in the bad old days.

References

Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.

Left, Sarah (2002-01-15). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited.
"Peter Cooper's Locomotive". The Manufacturer and Builder. IV (2): 32. February 1872. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
Dudley, P.H. (February 1, 1886). "The Inception and Progress of Railways". Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences: 142. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
Rolt, L. T. C. (1960). George and Robert Stephenson: the railway revolution. London: Longmans. p. 215.
"Mail Coaches" (PDF). London: The British Postal Museum & Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
Hughes, Geoffrey (2004). "Fairlie, Robert Francis (1830–1885)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9101. Retrieved 2014-08-01. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago: Railway Age. 1887. pp. 144–145.

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[1] Left, Sarah (2002-01-15). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited.

[mfrbldr-2] "Peter Cooper's Locomotive". The Manufacturer and Builder. IV (2): 32. February 1872. Retrieved September 18, 2015.

[NYAS1886-3] Dudley, P.H. (February 1, 1886). "The Inception and Progress of Railways". Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences: 142. Retrieved September 18, 2015.

[4] Rolt, L. T. C. (1960). George and Robert Stephenson: the railway revolution. London: Longmans. p. 215.

[5] "Mail Coaches" (PDF). London: The British Postal Museum & Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2012-11-06.

[6] Hughes, Geoffrey (2004). "Fairlie, Robert Francis (1830–1885)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9101. Retrieved 2014-08-01. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[7] The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago: Railway Age. 1887. pp. 144–145.