1834 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1834.

[edit] Events

[edit] January events

• January 30 - Construction on the first railroad in Kentucky, linking Lexington and Frankfort, is completed.

[edit] February events

• February 25 - The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad is formed to connect cities in Virginia.

[edit] April events

• April 14 - The Long Island Rail Road is incorporated in New York.

[edit] December events

• December 17 - The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin (now Dublin Pearse railway station) and Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), on the standard gauge.^[1]

[edit] Unknown date events

• The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad begins construction in North Carolina.
• The Castleton and West Stockbridge Railroad is chartered to build a railroad between Albany, New York and the Massachusetts state line.

[edit] Births

[edit] April births

• April 1 - Jim Fisk, American financier who worked with Daniel Drew for control of the Erie Railroad (d. 1872).
• April 23 - Chauncey Depew, president of New York Central Railroad (d. 1928).

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References

• Association of American Railroads (January 2005), This Month in Railroad History - January. Retrieved May 23, 2005.

1. ^ Murray, K. A. (1981). Ireland's First Railway. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society. ISBN 0-904078-07-8.