1827 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1827.

Events

February events

• February 28 - The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is incorporated.

May events

• May 5 - Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway opened by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in the United States.

September events

• September 7 - Opening of the first railway in Austria-Hungary, a horse-worked line from České Budějovice to Trojanov (in the present-day Czech Republic).^[1]

December events

• December 19 - The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.

Unknown date events

• Claudius Crozet completes surveying a route for the first railroad to be built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad.
• John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the forerunner of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

Births

July births

• July 11 - Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).

September births

• September 27 - Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).

October births

• October 27 - Albert Fink, German-born American civil engineer and railroad manager (d. 1897).

References

1. ↑ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.