This is a selective worldwide list of horse-drawn railways, an early form of rail transport that utilised horses, mules and other similar animals to pull rail cars. Horses and mules were also used for shunting.
Horses were used to pull railways in funiculars and coal mines as early as the early 16th century. The earliest recorded example is the Reisszug, an inclined railway in Austria dating to 1515. Almost all of the mines built in the 16th and 17th centuries used horse-drawn railways as their only mode of transport.