This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1822.

Events

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.[1]

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.^[1]

Births

September births

• September 16 – Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1888).^[2]

Unknown date births

Deaths