1809 in rail transport

Unknown date events

 * Opening of Poldice Railway, Cornwall, England.
 * Dr Richard Griffiths opens the "Doctor's Tramroad" connecting collieries with the Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (3.5 mi). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives.
 * A prototype for the Leiper Railroad, a horse drawn quarry rail line, was built in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania during the summer.

May events

 * May – Completion of main construction railway at site of Bell Rock Lighthouse off the coast of Scotland.

February births

 * February 3 – Thomas Swann, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1847–1853, is born (d. 1883).

August births

 * August 4 – Samuel Morton Peto, English railway contractor (d. 1889).

October births

 * October 10 - Nathaniel Worsdell, English carriage builder (d. 1886).