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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 6.

Category:Rail transport timelines

Events

1863 – The final vote between construction of a rail line or a channel is taken with the result six to three in favor of the rail line, which would eventually become the Randsfjorden Line in Norway.
1882 – Regular service begins on the Cincinnati Northern Railway between Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio.

1989 – In the Glasgow Bellgrove rail crash, one passenger and the driver of one train are killed when two British Rail Class 303 commuter trains collide just east of Bellgrove station in the East End of Glasgow.

2005 – Irigaike-kōen Station on Aichi Rapid Transit's Linimo line in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, opens.[1]

1833 – William Stroudley, locomotive and carriage superintendent for Highland Railway 1865–1870; locomotive superintendent at London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's Brighton Works 1870-1889, is born (d. 1889).
1844 – Frederick J. Kimball, American civil engineer who was instrumental in the formation of the Norfolk and Western Railway, is born (d. 1903).
1879 – Patrick H. Joyce, president of Chicago Great Western Railway 1931–1946, is born (d. 1946).

"事業計画" (in Japanese). Aichi Rapid Transit. March 31, 2006. Retrieved January 9, 2011.

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