1810 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1810.
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Events
May events
- May 24 – Monmouth Railway authorised by Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom for a railway or tramroad from the Forest of Dean to Monmouth, on the Welsh Borders, including provision to charge for passengers.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Unknown date events
- The Leiper Railroad connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania opens.
Births
January births
- January 3 – Henry Keyes, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1869–1870 (d. 1870).<ref name="Santa Fe">Template:Cite book</ref>
April births
- April 15 – Whitmell P. Tunstall, first president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1854).
- April 17 – Isaac Dripps, mechanical engineer for the Camden and Amboy Railroad who assembled the John Bull (d. 1892).<ref name=White>Template:Cite book</ref>
June births
- June 12 – David Levy Yulee, Florida railroad executive (d. 1886).
July births
- July 27 – H. H. Hunnewell, director for Illinois Central Railroad 1862-1871, president of Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, president of Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, is born (died 1902).
September births
- September 19 – Thomas Nickerson, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1874–1880 (d. 1892).<ref name="Santa Fe"/>
Unknown date births
- Joseph Harrison Jr., partner in the American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Eastwick and Harrison (d. 1874).<ref name=White/>
- William S. Hudson, superintendent of American steam locomotive manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (d. 1881).<ref name=White/>