One of Goldsworthy Gurney’s steam road coaches suffers a boiler explosion in Glasgow.[4]
6 June – first iron steamboat to be launched on the River Clyde, Fairy Queen by John Neilson & Sons.[5]
4 July – opening of first section of Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, from St Leonards to Craighall,[6] including St Leonards Tunnel, Scotland's earliest tunnel on a public railway, and the early cast iron bridge at Braid Burn (erected in March).
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^Thomas, John (1971). A regional history of the railways of Great Britain, volume VI: Scotland – the Lowlands and the Borders. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 234. ISBN0-7153-5408-6.
^Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways: A short history of their origin and development 1801–1844. London: The Locomotive Publishing Co. pp. 17–18. OCLC11064369.
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