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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 18.

Events

19th century

• 1855 – The second Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge opens for rail traffic; the bridge had rails that allowed trains of three different gauges to operate over it.

20th century

• 1923 – Iragawa Station, on the what would eventually become JR East's Uetsu Main Line, opens in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
• 1950 – Wind blows smoke and freshly fallen snow to obscure the headlight on a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train doing switching maneuvers at Ashton, Ontario; the apparently blinking light is misinterpreted as a clear signal by the engineer of an opposing train who throttles up and runs into passenger cars that were still standing on the mainline.
• 1960 – Western Region of British Railways 2-10-0 standard class 9F 92220 Evening Star is named at Swindon Works to commemorate its completion as the last steam locomotive built for B.R.
• 1996 – SNCF begins a construction project to renew the track ballast on the Paris-Lyon TGV line; the project is expected to last through 2006.

21st century

• 2005 – Joseph H. Boardman, head of the New York State Department of Transportation, is nominated to lead the United States Federal Railroad Administration.

Deaths

• 1911 – David Moffat, Colorado financier and head of nine railroads, dies (b. 1839).
• 2012 – Alan Pegler, British railway preservationist, dies (b. 1920).