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.^[1]

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.^[2]

September events

• September – Eleazer Lord becomes first president of the Erie Railroad.^[3]

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.^[4]
• Paterson and Hudson River Railroad is chartered.^[5]

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).