1811 in rail transport
| Years in rail transport |
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| Timeline of railway history |
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1811.
Events
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Births
[edit]February births
[edit]- February 20 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843–1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847 (d. 1847).
June births
[edit]- June 24 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad (d. 1853).
August births
[edit]- August – Ginery Twichell, president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad beginning in 1857, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1870–1873 (d. 1883) (Congress Bioguide gives August 26; Waters gives August 22).[1][2]
November births
[edit]- November 13 – Robert B. Dockray, civil engineer on the London and Birmingham Railway in England (d. 1871).
Deaths
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References
[edit]- ^ "Ginery Twichell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2005.
- ^ Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 43–44.