1807 in rail transport


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). Deaths

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