1802 in rail transport

Years in rail transport

1801 in rail transport 1802 in rail transport 1803 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1802.

Events

March events

• March 24 - Andrew Vivian and Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, England, are granted the first British patent for a steam engine for propelling carriages and other purposes.^[1]

June events

• June 3 - Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad authorised under Act of Parliament, the first granted for a public railway in Wales.^[2] Its acquisition of the Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly also makes it the world’s first dock-owning public railway company.^[3]

September events

• September 21 - First traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England.^[4]

Births

July births

• July 2 - William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (d. 1867).^[5]

Unknown date births

• Moncure Robinson, builder of the Chesterfield Railroad (d. 1891).

References

1. "Camborne Hill". Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. 2001. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
2. Price, M.R.C. (1992). The Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-423-7.
3. Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
4. Gerhold, Dorian (2010). "The rise and fall of the Surrey Iron Railway, 1802-46". Surrey Archaeological Collections (Surrey Archaeological Society) 95: 193–210.
5. "American locomotive engineers". Archived from the original on 15 February 2005. Retrieved 2005-02-09.