Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 6
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- March 6
- 1844 – Frederick J. Kimball (pictured), 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).
- 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.
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