1821 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1821.
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[edit] Unknown date events
- Plans are formed for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England, as authorised by the British Parliament this year. The railway opened in 1825.
[edit] Births
[edit] May births
- May 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1885).
[edit] August births
- August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1905).
[edit] October births
- October 21 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900)[1].
[edit] December births
- December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862).
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Ambrose, Stephen E. (2000). Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad. Touchstone. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-7432-0317-8. A footnote in the text cites the data to "Collis Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley."
