1822 in rail transport

May events

 * May 24 – The first rail of the Stockton and Darlington Railway is laid in ceremonial style at Stockton-on-Tees by the Chairman of the company, Thomas Meynell.

November events

 * November 18 – The Hetton colliery railway, near Sunderland, England, opens for locomotive traction, being designed by George Stephenson to be wholly steam worked.

September births

 * September 16 – Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1888).