title: 1833 in rail transport
text: # 1833 in rail transport
  
  This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1833.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February events
  
  * February 15 – The Western Railroad of Massachusetts is chartered to build a railroad between Worcester, Massachusetts, and the New York state line.
  
  ### March events
  
  * March 15 – Andover and Wilmington Railroad is incorporated to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts.
  
  ### April events
  
  * April 29 – The Utica and Schenectady Railroad is chartered.
  
  ### May events
  
  * May 6 – Grand Junction Railway and London and Birmingham Railway are both authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
  
  ### June events
  
  * June 6 – Andrew Jackson rides the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Ellicott Mills to Baltimore, first US President to travel by rail during his term of office.
  
  ### September events
  
  * September – Eleazer Lord becomes first president of the Erie Railroad.
  
  ### November events
  
  * November 8 – The Hightstown rail accident in New Jersey is the first to involve passenger deaths.
  
  ### December events
  
  * December 17 – Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey opens throughout.
  
  ### Unknown date events
  
  * Tredegar Iron Works, an American steam locomotive manufacturer, is formed in Virginia.
  * The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway operates a wagon ferry on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland.
  * Paterson and Hudson River Railroad is chartered.
  
  ## Births
  
  ### March births
  
  * March 6 – William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865–1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870–1889, is born (d. 1889).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### April deaths
  
  * April 22 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor and steam locomotive builder (b. 1771).
  