This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1814.
Events
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July events
edit- July 25 – George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England.
Births
editJanuary births
edit- January 21 – Wendel Bollman, American designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (d. 1884).
- January 30 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, is born (d. 1896).
May births
edit- May 26 – Wilhelm Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884).
September births
edit- September 11 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897).
Unknown date births
edit- Andrew Barclay, Scottish steam locomotive builder (d. 1900).[1][2]
Deaths
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References
edit- ^ "Overview of Andrew Barclay". Retrieved 2005-02-09.
- ^ Wear, Russell (1977). The Locomotive Builders of Kilmarnock. Industrial Railway Society. ISBN 0-902888-81-1.