1827 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1827.

Events[]

February events[]

• February 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is incorporated.

May events[]

• May 5 – Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway opened by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in the United States.

June events[]

• June 30 - the Saint-Étienne to Andrézieux Railway, the first railway line in France and continental Europe begins to operate.

September events[]

• September 7 – Opening of the first railway in Austria-Hungary, a horse-worked line from České Budějovice to Trojanov (in the present-day Czech Republic).^{[1][page needed]}

December events[]

• December 19 – The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.

Unknown date events[]

• Claudius Crozet completes surveying a route for the first railroad to be built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad.
• John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the forerunner of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

Births[]

July births[]

• July 11 – Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).

September births[]

• September 27 – Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).

October births[]

• October 27 – Albert Fink, German-born American civil engineer and railroad manager (d. 1897).

Deaths[]

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