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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 13.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1845 – A meeting is held in the courthouse of Navan, Ireland, to protest plans by Thomas Brodigan to build a railway between Navan and Dublin.[1][2]

1909 – William Jackson Palmer, builder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, dies (b. 1836).
1934 – Taka Station in Taka-chō, Shōbara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, is opened.
1973 – Michigan governor William Milliken issues an executive order placing state railroad regulation under a newly reorganized Michigan Department of Transportation.[3]
1988
- The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world to date, opens between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
- Shin-Onomichi Station on the high-speed Sanyo Shinkansen line in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan, is opened.
2000 – Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías inaugurates Fátima station on the Buenos Aires Premetro.

"Meath Railway History". Meath on Track. Retrieved March 13, 2007.
"Railways of Meath". Irish Identity. Retrieved March 13, 2009.
"Railroad History Timeline: 1970-1979". Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Retrieved March 13, 2007.

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