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1809 in rail transport 
Summary
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1809.
Events edit
Unknown date events edit
- Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.[1]
- Dr Richard Griffiths opens the "Doctor's Tramroad" connecting collieries with the Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (3.5 mi (5.6 km)). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives.[2]
- A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania during the summer.[3][4]
May events edit
- May – Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.[5]
Births edit
February births edit
- February 3 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847–1853, is born (d. 1883).
August births edit
- August 4 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (d. 1889).[6]
October births edit
- October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (d. 1886).[7]
Deaths edit
References edit
- ^ Baxter, Bertram (1966). Stone Blocks and Iron Rails. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- ^ Rowson, Stephen; Wright, Ian L. (2004). The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals, Volume 2. Lydney: Black Dwarf. ISBN 1-903599-12-1.
- ^ Wilson, William Hasell (1895). A Brief Review of Railroad History from the Earliest Period to the Year 1894. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott. p. 20. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
railroad Thomas Leiper 1600-1923.
- ^ "The Leiper Canal". Retrieved 2011-05-07.
- ^ "Bellrock.org.uk". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
- ^ Brooks, Edward C. (1996). Sir Samuel Morton Peto Bt: eminent Victorian, railway entrepreneur, country squire, MP. Bury Clerical Society. ISBN 0-9502988-4-0.
- ^ Marshall, John (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers. Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901461-22-9.