1919 in rail transport

March events

 * March 5 – Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station officially opened (architect: Eliel Saarinen).

April events

 * April 12 – Ryutaro Nomura succeeds Simbei Kunisawa for a second term as president of South Manchuria Railway.

May events

 * May 28 – Official inauguration of electrified suburban railways in Melbourne, Australia, with first train from Flinders Street station to Sandringham and Essendon.

September events

 * September 27–October 6 – Railway workers in the United Kingdom stage a strike, called by the National Union of Railwaymen.

October events

 * October 17 – Madrid Metro opens.
 * October 20 – The metre-gauge railway from La Paz (Bolivia) to Cumbre opens.

November events

 * November 15 – The golden spike is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million.

December events

 * December 1
 * The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, California, for the official line opening ceremony.
 * The Canadian Railway War Board is reorganized as the Railway Association of Canada.
 * December 3 – The Quebec Bridge, operated by Canadian National Railways, opens to rail traffic after almost two decades of construction. It is 987 m long, incorporating the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 m.
 * December 20 – Onawa train wreck: A collision on the International Railway of Maine kills 23 people.

Unknown date events

 * Ralph Budd becomes president of the Great Northern Railway and becomes the youngest (40) president of any American railroad to date.
 * The Federal Trade Commission orders Armour & Co. to sell its produce-hauling subsidiary, Fruit Growers Express (FGE), for antitrust reasons.
 * Jewett Car Company, a Newark, Ohio, producer of interurban cars and trolleys, closes after 25 years in production.

February deaths

 * February 23 - Guy Calthrop, general manager of London and North Western Railway, previously of Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway (born 1870).

April deaths

 * April 24 - Zhan Tianyou, Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance (born 1861).

August deaths

 * August 3 - Samuel W. Fordyce, president of St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway 1886-1889, St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1890-1898, Kansas City Southern Railway 1900 (born 1840).
 * August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and owner of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works (born 1835).

October deaths

 * October 10 - Anatole Mallet, inventor of the Mallet locomotive type (born 1837).