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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1815.
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Events
February events
- February 6 - The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.
July events
- July 31 - The boiler explosion of a locomotive designed by William Brunton on the Newbottle Waggonway in North East England kills around a dozen people, the first railway disaster.1
Births
Unknown date births
- Daniel McCallum, General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855-1858 (d. 1878).
Deaths
References
- ^ Rees, Jim; Guy, Andy (2004). "The first industrial locomotives", in Mountford, Colin E: The Private Railways of County Durham. Melton Mowbray: Industrial Railway Society, p.11. ISBN 1-901556-29-8.