1834 in rail transport
Events
January events
February events
- February 25 – The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.
March events
- March 25 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England offers season tickets from this date.[1]
April events
- April 14 – The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.
December events
- December 17 – The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin (now Dublin Pearse railway station) and Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), on the standard gauge.[2]
Unknown date events
- The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, and begins construction.[3]
- The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany, New York, and the Massachusetts state line.
Births
April births
- April 1 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1872).
- April 23 – Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad (d. 1928).
Deaths
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References
- Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.
- Kentish Gazette.
- Murray, K. A. (1981). Ireland's First Railway. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society. ISBN 0-904078-07-8.
- "Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon)". North Carolina Business History. 2006. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
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