Events
- November 13 – Public meeting in Darlington, England, resolves to promote a Stockton and Darlington Railway.[1]
Births
- April 4 – Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859 (d. 1894)
- July 22 – J. Gregory Smith, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1866–1872, is born (died 1891)
Unknown date births
- Septimus Norris, steam locomotive designer often credited as the designer of the first 4-6-0 (died 1862)
Deaths
See also
References
- ^ Holmes, P. J. (1975). The Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825–1975. Ayr: First Avenue Publishing.
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