1800 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1800.

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).

References

1. ↑ "Coatbridge & Airdrie". Retrieved 2009-12-15. 
2. ↑ Peacock, A. J. (1988). George Hudson 1800-1971: the Railway King, vol. 1. York: author. ISBN 0-9513280-1-8.