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1821 in rail transport

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Events
April event November event
Births
May births August births October births December births
Deaths
References

{{Year in rail transport|prev=1820|curr=1821|next=1822|decade=1820}}

Events

April event

April 19 – Stockton and Darlington Railway is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

November event

November – Henry Robinson Palmer patents a monorail system in England.

Births

May births

May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1885).

August births

August 10 – Jay Cooke, financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1905).
August 17 – John Saxby, English railway signalling engineer (d. 1913).^[1]

October births

October 21 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900).^[2]

December births

December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862).

Deaths

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=Marshall, John|title=Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers|edition=2nd|location=Oxford|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2003|isbn=0-901461-22-9}}
2. ^{{cite book| title=Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad| author=Ambrose, Stephen E.| year=2000| publisher=Touchstone| isbn=0-7432-0317-8| pages=47–48}} A footnote in the text cites the data to "Collis Huntington Memoir, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley."

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