title: 1807 in rail transport
text: # 1807 in rail transport
  
  This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1807.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### March
  
  * March 25 – The first railway passenger service begins, on the Oystermouth Railway in South Wales. The cars are drawn by horses.
  
  ### May
  
  * May - closure of the Low Moor Waggonway
  
  ## Births
  
  ### January births
  
  * January 9 – Matthias von Schönerer, Austrian railway engineer (d. 1881).
  
  ### March births
  
  * March 27 – James P. Kirkwood, designer of Starrucca Viaduct in the United States (d. 1877).
  
  ### November births
  
  * November 5 – Oliver Ames Jr., president of Union Pacific Railroad 1866–1871, brother of Oakes Ames (d. 1877).
  
  ### December births
  
  * December 16 – William H. Aspinwall, American financier who helped build the Panama Railway (d. 1875).
  