1814 in rail transport

July events

 * July 25 – George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England.

January births

 * January 21 – Wendel Bollman, American designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (d. 1884).
 * January 30 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, is born (d. 1896).

May births

 * May 26 – Wilhelm Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884).

September births

 * September 11 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897).

Unknown date births

 * Andrew Barclay, Scottish steam locomotive builder (d. 1900).