1822 in rail transport

• 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080914135120/http://www.railcentre.co.uk/stockton/opening2.htm]

• November 18 – The Hetton colliery railway, near Sunderland, England, opens for locomotive traction, being designed by George Stephenson to be wholly steam worked.{{cite web| url=http://www.locos-in-profile.co.uk/Articles/Early_Locos/early5.html|title=George Stephenson: Hetton Colliery Locomotives Dart, Tallyho and Star|work=Locos in Profile|date=2003-05-16|accessdate=2008-07-17| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080719150238/http://www.locos-in-profile.co.uk/Articles/Early_Locos/early5.html| archivedate= 19 July 2008 | url-status= dead}}

• September 16 – Charles Crocker, a member of The Big Four group of financiers in California (d. 1888).{{cite journal| author=White, John H. Jr. |publisher=Railway and Locomotive Historical Society| date=Spring 1986| title=America's most noteworthy railroaders| journal=Railroad History| issue=154| pages=9–15 }}

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