1819 in rail transport

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.

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).

April deaths

 * April 15 – Oliver Evans, pioneering American steam locomotive designer and inventor (b. 1755).