1834 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1834.
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Events
January events
- January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- January 30 – Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.
February events
- February 25 – The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.
March events
- March 25 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England offers season tickets from this date.<ref>Kentish Gazette.</ref>
April events
- April 14 – The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.
September events
- September 22 – The Leeds and Selby Railway in the north of England is officially opened; at Template:Convert long, its Marsh Lane tunnel through Richmond Hill, Leeds, near its Marsh Lane terminus is the world's longest railway tunnel at this date and the first through which passengers are hauled by locomotives.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December events
- December 17 – The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin (modern-day Dublin Pearse railway station) and Kingstown (modern-day Dún Laoghaire), on the standard gauge.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Unknown date events
- The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany, New York, and the Massachusetts state line.
Births
April births
- April 1 – Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1872).
- April 23 – Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad (d. 1928).
Deaths
References
- Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History – January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.