1833 in rail transport
# 1833 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1833.

## Events

### 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.

## Births

### 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).

## Deaths

### April deaths

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