1815 in rail transport

• February 6 – The first railroad charter in the United States is issued to the New Jersey Railroad Company, a railroad that ultimately was never built.

• Bryn Oer Tramway in South Wales opened.

• July 31 – The boiler explosion of a locomotive designed by William Brunton on the Newbottle Waggonway in North East England kills around a dozen people, the first railway disaster.{{cite book|author=Rees, Jim|author2=Guy, Andy|editor=Mountford, Colin E|title=The Private Railways of County Durham|year=2004|publisher=Industrial Railway Society|location=Melton Mowbray|isbn=1-901556-29-8|chapter=The first industrial locomotives|page=11}}

• January 21 - Daniel McCallum, Scottish-born General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad 1855–1858 (d. 1878).

• March 24 - Edward Entwistle, first driver of the Rocket locomotive (d. 1909).{{cite news|title=England's first engine-driver|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW19070807.2.256.2|newspaper=Otago Witness|date=7 August 1907|publisher=National Library of New Zealand|series=Papers Past|accessdate=2009-07-13}}

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