1821 in rail transport
# 1821 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1821.

## Events

### April event

* April 19 – Stockton and Darlington Railway is authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

### November event

* November – Henry Robinson Palmer patents a monorail system in England.

## Births

### May births

* May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt and president of the New York Central system (d. 1885).

### August births

* August 10 – Jay Cooke, financier who built the Northern Pacific Railway (d. 1905).
* August 17 – John Saxby, English railway signalling engineer (d. 1913).

### October births

* October 21 - Collis P. Huntington, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900).

### December births

* December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862).

## Deaths

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