1833 in rail transport

February events

 * February 15 – The Western Railroad of Massachusetts is chartered to build a railroad between Worcester, Massachusetts, and the New York state line.

March events

 * March 15 – Andover and Wilmington Railroad is incorporated to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts.

April events

 * April 29 – The Utica and Schenectady Railroad is chartered.

May events

 * May 6 – Grand Junction Railway and London and Birmingham Railway are both authorised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

June events

 * June 6 – Andrew Jackson rides the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Ellicott Mills to Baltimore, first US President to travel by rail during his term of office.

September events

 * September – Eleazer Lord becomes first president of the Erie Railroad.

November events

 * November 8 – The Hightstown rail accident in New Jersey is the first to involve passenger deaths.

December events

 * December 17 – Camden and Amboy Railroad in New Jersey opens throughout.

Unknown date events

 * Tredegar Iron Works, an American steam locomotive manufacturer, is formed in Virginia.
 * The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway operates a wagon ferry on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland.
 * Paterson and Hudson River Railroad is chartered.

March births

 * March 6 – William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865–1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870–1889, is born (d. 1889).

April deaths

 * April 22 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor and steam locomotive builder (b. 1771).