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      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).


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