1807 in rail transport

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

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).