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{{Year in rail transport|prev=1829|curr=1830|next=1831|decade=1830}}EventsJanuary events- January 7 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road opens its first section, {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km}}, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A..
- January 9 – Ground is broken in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first railroad to use steam locomotives in South Carolina, the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road.
February events - February 4 – The Camden and Amboy Rail Road, the first railroad to be built in New Jersey, is chartered.
March events- March 15 – The New Orleans, Louisiana, City Council approves the right of way for the construction of the Pontchartrain Rail-Road.
May events- May 3 – Ceremonial opening of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway in England. The steam locomotive Invicta is used on a level section of the route.[1]
- May 22 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road completes construction on the line between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
- May 24 – The first revenue trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road operate between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, a distance of {{convert|13|mi}}.
August events - Construction begins on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad between Albany and Schenectady, New York.
- August 28 – In a race between the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road's Tom Thumb and a stagecoach near Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, the horse and coach wins.[2][3]
September events- September 15 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first purpose built passenger railway operated by steam locomotives, opens in England from Liverpool Road, Manchester, to Edge Hill, Liverpool.
- September 18 – Robert Stephenson is appointed to survey the London and Birmingham Railway.[4]
November events- November 11 – The first transit of mail via railways occurs between Liverpool and Manchester, England.[5]
December events - December 25 – The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road begins operations.
Unknown date events- The Boston and Maine Railroad is formed to build a railroad between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine.
BirthsJanuary births- January 2 – Henry Morrison Flagler, visionary and builder of Florida East Coast Railway (d. 1913).
- January 30 – Thomas Fremantle, director of London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1868 and chairman 1896–1908 (d. 1918).
April births- April 5 (probable date) – Robert F. Fairlie, Scottish-born steam locomotive designer (d. 1885).[6]
July births - July 29 – Robert Harris, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1884-1888 (d. 1894).[7]
DeathsSeptember deaths- September 15 – William Huskisson, the popular MP for Liverpool, at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, misjudges the speed of the approaching locomotive Rocket and is run over, becoming the world's first railway passenger fatality (b. 1770).
References- Association of American Railroads (January 2005), [https://archive.is/20070701190256/http://www.railfanclub.org/archives/newsletters/January05/ThisMonth.htm This Month in Railroad History – January]. Retrieved May 23, 2005.
1. ^{{cite news |last=Left|first=Sarah|title=Key dates in Britain's railway history|work=The Guardian Unlimited|date=2002-01-15|url=https://www.theguardian.com/transport/Story/0,2763,633951,00.html}}
2. ^{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/?id=1Pk_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA32&dq=%22Tom+Thumb%22+locomotive+race#v=onepage&q=%22Tom%20Thumb%22%20locomotive%20race&f=false| title=Peter Cooper's Locomotive| page=32| journal=The Manufacturer and Builder| date=February 1872| volume=IV| issue=2| accessdate=September 18, 2015}}
3. ^{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/?id=TfYeAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA142&dq=%22Tom+Thumb%22+locomotive+race#v=onepage&q=%22Tom%20Thumb%22%20locomotive%20race&f=false| page=142| title=The Inception and Progress of Railways| journal=Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences| date=February 1, 1886| first=P.H.| last=Dudley| accessdate=September 18, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=Rolt, L. T. C.|title=George and Robert Stephenson: the railway revolution|publisher=Longmans|location=London|year=1960|pages=215}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Mail Coaches|url=http://postalheritage.org.uk/history/downloads/BPMA_Info_Sheet_MailCoaches_web.pdf|publisher=The British Postal Museum & Archive|location=London|accessdate=2012-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102210143/http://postalheritage.org.uk/history/downloads/BPMA_Info_Sheet_MailCoaches_web.pdf|archive-date=2011-01-02|dead-url=yes|df=}}
6. ^{{cite web|first=Geoffrey|last=Hughes|title=Fairlie, Robert Francis (1830–1885)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9101|accessdate=2014-08-01|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9101}} {{ODNBsub}}
7. ^{{cite book|title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887|location=Chicago|publisher=Railway Age|year=1887|pages=144–145}}
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