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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1811.
Births
February births
- February 20 – Thomas Kirtley, locomotive superintendent of North Midland Railway 1843–1844, and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1847 (d. 1847).
June births
- June 24 – Hezekiah C. Seymour, chief engineer for Ontario, Huron and Lake Simcoe Railroad (d. 1853).
August births
- August – Ginery Twichell, president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad beginning in 1857, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1870–1873 (d. 1883) (Congress Bioguide gives August 26; Waters gives August 22).[1][2]
November births
- November 13 – Robert B. Dockray, civil engineer on the London and Birmingham Railway in England (d. 1871).
References
- "Ginery Twichell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2005.
- Waters, Lawrence L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 43–44.