This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1833.
Events edit
February events edit
- February 15 – The Western Railroad of Massachusetts is chartered to build a railroad between Worcester, Massachusetts, and the New York state line.
March events edit
- March 15 – Andover and Wilmington Railroad is incorporated to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts.
April events edit
- April 29 – The Utica and Schenectady Railroad is chartered.
May events edit
- May 6 – Grand Junction Railway and London and Birmingham Railway are both authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[1]
June events edit
- June 6 – Andrew Jackson rides the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Ellicott Mills to Baltimore, first US President to travel by rail during his term of office.[2]
September events edit
- September – Eleazer Lord becomes first president of the Erie Railroad.[3]
November events edit
- November 8 – The Hightstown rail accident in New Jersey is the first to involve passenger deaths.
December events edit
- December 17 – Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey opens throughout.
Unknown date events edit
- Tredegar Iron Works, an American steam locomotive manufacturer, is formed in Virginia.
- The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway operates a wagon ferry on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland.[4]
- Paterson and Hudson River Railroad is chartered.[5]
Births edit
March births edit
- March 6 – William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865–1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870–1889, is born (d. 1889).
Deaths edit
April deaths edit
- April 22 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor and steam locomotive builder (b. 1771).
References edit
- ^ Jenkinson, David (1988). The London & Birmingham: a railway of consequence. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. p. 8. ISBN 1-85414-102-3.
- ^ 'Rails Across America', Association of American Railroads, School and College Service, Washington D.C.,1960
- ^ Stratton, Fred. "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on 18 March 2005. Retrieved 2005-03-02.
- ^ Marshall, John (1989). The Guinness Railway Book. Enfield: Guinness Books. ISBN 0-8511-2359-7. OCLC 24175552.[page needed]
- ^ "Erie Railroad Home Page - Erie Lackawanna Historical Society". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2008-12-01. Accessed November 30, 2008.