title: 1819 in rail transport
text: # 1819 in rail transport
  
  This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1819.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### April events
  
  * April 13 – The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, a wagonway in the midlands of England, opens for coal traffic.
  
  ### June events
  
  * June 24 – James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that will build the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
  
  ## Births
  
  ### February births
  
  * February 20 – Alfred Escher, Swiss railway promoter (d. 1882)
  
  ### October births
  
  * October 27 – Henry B. Plant, president of the Plant System of railroads (d. 1899).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  ### April deaths
  
  * April 15 – Oliver Evans, pioneering American steam locomotive designer and inventor (b. 1755).
  