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1750s in rail transport
1740s
.
1750s in rail transport
.
1760s
Other topics:
archaeology
This article lists events relating to
rail transport
that occurred during the 1750s.
1755
Births
September births
September 13 –
Oliver Evans
, pioneering American
steam locomotive
designer and inventor (died 1819).
1756
Births
February births
February 23 –
Franz Josef Gerstner
, pioneering Austrian railway engineer and physicist (died 1832).
1758
Events
June events
June 9 – The
Middleton Railway
is the first in
Great Britain
to be granted powers by
Act of Parliament
. It is built by
Charles Brandling
to carry coal from his pits at
Middleton
into
Leeds
and is at this time a wooden, horse-drawn
wagonway
with a
gauge
of 4 ft 1 in (1.254 m); much rebuilt it survives as a
heritage railway
.
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See also
Years in rail transport
References
^
Bushell, J. (1975).
The World’s Oldest Railway: a history of the Middleton Railway
. Sheffield: Turntable Publications.
ISBN
0-902844-27-X
.
^
Paley, W. B. (1910). "The first railway Act".
Locomotive
: 49–50, 76.
^
Sharman, Frank A. (1975). "The first railway Act?".
Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society
.
21
: 47–9.
Preceded by
1740s in rail transport
Rail transport timeline
1750s
Succeeded by
1760s in rail transport