• Source: 1808 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1808.




Events






= February events

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February 8 – The Washington Bridge Company is granted authority in Washington, D.C., to build the Long Bridge over the Potomac River, a bridge that will eventually be rebuilt to carry the first railroad tracks to cross the river.




= May events

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May 27 – The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first railway line in Scotland authorised by Act of Parliament.




= July events

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July 8 through September 18 – Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive Catch Me Who Can is demonstrated in London.




Births






= January births

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January 8 – John A. Poor, first president of the Portland Company is born in Andover, Maine (d. 1871).




= February births

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February 10 – John Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1852-1874 (d. 1874).




= March births

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March 19 – Johann Andreas Schubert, builder of the first German steam locomotive, Saxonia, is born in Wernesgrün (d. 1870).




= May births

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May 12 – Joseph Hamilton Beattie, locomotive engineer for London and South Western Railway 1850–1871 (d. 1871), is born.




= July births

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July 25 – Francis Thompson, English architect working chiefly on railways (d. 1895).




= Unknown date births

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George Muirson Totten, chief construction engineer for the Panama Railway (d. 1884).




References

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