This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1867.
February 16 - The São Paulo Railway in Brazil is opened, including an incline system on the Serra do Mar.
April 18 – Bristol and Exeter Railway's Portishead branch, built by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company, opens.
May 7 - The Windsor and Annapolis Railway is incorporated in Nova Scotia.
June 29 - The Warrington rail crash in England kills 8 people.
August 10 - The first railway in Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) (and the first in Asia outside the Indian subcontinent) opens between Semarang and Tanggun in central Java (25 kilometres (16 mi).
August 21 - The rack railway at Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, opens between Rockhampton and Westwood via Kabra.
August 24 - Opening of railway over the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy.
August 27 - J. Nason and J. F. Wilson, both of Boston, Massachusetts, are awarded the first U.S. patent covering level crossing gates.
September 4 - The Boston and Albany Railroad is formed through the merger of four smaller railroads in New England.
October - John S. Eldridge succeeds Robert H. Berdell as president of the Erie Railroad.
November 19 - The Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company incorporated.
December 1 - Skjærdalen and Tyristrand are connected on the Randsfjorden Line in Norway.
December 9 - The Lyttelton rail tunnel in New Zealand of 2595m between Christchurch and the port of Lyttelton is opened.
December 18 - The 'Angola Horror' train wreck kills 49 people near Angola, New York when the last coach of a Lake Shore train derails and plunges down a gulley.
Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires control of the New York Central railroad.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad places the first 2-10-0 steam locomotives in the world into use.
Construction on the Union Pacific Railroad reaches Cheyenne, Wyoming.
An early form of dome car is introduced in Russia.
Construction on the Kansas Pacific Railway reaches Salina, Kansas.
Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1920–1937 (d. 1939).
January 5 - William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (b. 1802).
February 7 - William Dargan, Irish railway contractor (b. 1799).
June 13 - Gridley Bryant, inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (b. 1789).
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