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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 21.

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Events

1836 – Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, is opened.
1877 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike for the workers killed in Baltimore, Maryland, the day before. Rioting erupts throughout Pittsburgh as a result.

1904 – The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
1971 – A fast train from Basel to Copenhagen derails due to a technical failure in the Class 103 engine; 23 die and 121 are injured.
2000 – Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.

2001 – Four passenger cars on the Mangalore Mail commuter train heading for Chennai derail while crossing the Kadalundi River near Kozhikode, India, killing 57 people. See: Kadalundi River rail disaster.
2003 – A tornado knocks down most of the former Erie Railroad's Kinzua Bridge.[1]
2005 – A second series of explosions occur on the London Underground just two weeks after the previous attacks
2005 – Union Pacific 844, the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad, makes a series of break-in runs after the most extensive overhaul of an operating steam locomotive in the United States since the 1950s.[2][3]
2005 Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell presides over and cuts the ribbon for the opening ceremony on Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad's new branch to Homer City, Pennsylvania.[4]

Alward, Daniel (2005). "Kinzua Bridge In McKean County Pennsylvania". Retrieved June 13, 2005.
Union Pacific Railroad (July 20, 2005). "Union Pacific Railroad's Historic Steam Locomotive No. 844 Coming to Omaha". Retrieved July 23, 2005.
"UP offers GPS tracking of steam excursions". Trainboard.com. July 21, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2005. Includes photos of UP 844 break-in runs on July 21.
Harper, Margaret (July 27, 2005). "Railroad returns: Route ready for transportation of coal to Homer City". The Penn Online. Retrieved July 27, 2005.

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