| Years in rail transport |
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1802.
Events
March events
- March 24 – Andrew Vivian and Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, England, are granted the first British patent for a steam engine for propelling carriages and other purposes.[1]
June events
- June 3 – Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad authorised under Act of Parliament, the first granted for a public railway in Wales.[2] Its acquisition of the Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly also makes it the world’s first dock-owning public railway company.[3]
September events
- September 21 – First traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England.[4]
Births
January births
- January 10 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway (d. 1860).
February births
- February 2 – Moncure Robinson, builder of the Chesterfield Railroad (d. 1891).
July births
- July 2 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (d. 1867).[5]
References
- ^ "Camborne Hill". Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. 2001. Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
- ^ Price, M.R.C. (1992). The Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-423-7.
- ^ Balkwill, Richard; Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-707-X.
- ^ Gerhold, Dorian (2010). "The rise and fall of the Surrey Iron Railway, 1802–46". Surrey Archaeological Collections. Surrey Archaeological Society. 95: 193–210.
- ^ "American locomotive engineers". Archived from the original on 15 February 2005. Retrieved 2005-02-09.