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

Events

19th century

• 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.

20th century

• 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.

21st century

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

Births

• 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).