This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1827.
February 28 - The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road is incorporated.
May 5 - Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway opened by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in the United States.
September 7 - Opening of the first railway in Austria-Hungary, a horse-worked line from České Budějovice to Trojanov (in the present-day Czech Republic).
December 19 - The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road is chartered.
Claudius Crozet completes surveying a route for the first railroad to be built in Virginia, the Chesterfield Railroad.
John B. Jervis becomes the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the forerunner of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
July 11 - Austin Corbin, president of Long Island Rail Road (d. 1896).
September 27 - Aaron Augustus Sargent, American journalist, lawyer and politician; authored the first Pacific Railroad Act (d. 1887).
October 27 - Albert Fink, German-born American civil engineer and railroad manager (d. 1897).
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