1813 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1813.
Contents
Events
- Passenger services (by horse-drawn coach) begin on the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the first such service in Scotland.[1]
Births
February births
- February 16 – Joseph R. Anderson, owner of American steam locomotive manufacturing company Tredegar Iron Works (d. 1892).
- February 23 – John M. Forbes, president of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (d. 1898).
May births
- May 14 – Charles Beyer, German-British steam locomotive manufacturer, co-founder of Beyer-Peacock (d. 1876).[2]
September births
- September 1 – Mark Hopkins, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California.
- September 11 - John Chester Craven, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1847-1870, is born (d. 1887).
Unknown date births
- Wilson Eddy, American steam locomotive manufacturer (d. 1898).
Deaths
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References
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- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986), America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders, Railroad History, 154, p. 9–15.
