1826 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1826.
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Events
March events
- March 4 – Gridley Bryant's Granite Railway is incorporated.<ref name=EB>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name=Elks>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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April events
- April 1 – Construction begins in Massachusetts on the Granite Railway, one of the first railroads in North America, under the direction of Gridley Bryant.<ref name=Elks />
- April 17 – The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany and Schenectady, the first in New York State.
May events
- May 5 – Liverpool and Manchester Railway, designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, and which in 1830 is to become the world's first purpose-built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives to be opened, is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- May 26 – Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway in Scotland is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Whishaw-RailofGB</ref>
October events
- October 1 – Opening of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway in Scotland.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- October 7 – The first train operates over the Granite Railway in Massachusetts.<ref name=EB /><ref name=Elks />
Births
January births
- January 2 – Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911).
March births
- March 4 – Theodore Judah, American engineer who argued the case for construction of the First transcontinental railroad (d. 1863).
April births
- April 3 – Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (d. 1900).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November births
- November 10 – Oden Bowie, the 34th Governor of the State of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872,<ref name=coleman>Template:Cite book</ref> founder and first President of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad<ref name="Hollander 1982 280">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=penn2>
Template:Cite book</ref> and also president of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway.<ref name="Hollander 1982 280"/>
December births
- December 1 – William Mahone, American civil engineer and Confederate Army Major General who built the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Norfolk and Western (d. 1895).
Unknown date births
- John P. Laird, Scottish engineer, designer and patentee of the two-wheel equalized leading truck for steam locomotives (d. 1882).
Deaths
February deaths
- February 20 – Matthew Murray, English steam engine manufacturer (b. 1765).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>