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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on March 21.

Events

20th century

• 1905 – Construction begins on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad in Florida.
• 1914 – Henry Clay Hall is appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission filling the vacancy left by Charles A. Prouty's resignation.
• 1918 – The Railroad Control Act becomes law in the United States, guaranteeing the return to private ownership and administration of America's railroads from the USRA at the end of World War I.
• 1993 – Warwick railway station on the Transperth Joondalup Line opens with the commencement of regular passenger services,

21st century

• 2001 – A General Motors Electro-Motive Division JT42CWR (Series 66) becomes the first American-built diesel locomotive to cross the Germany-Switzerland border as it leads a container train from Cologne to Mutenz.
• 2003 – Official launch of M>Train's new Siemens Nexas trains in Melbourne, Australia.

Deaths

• 1946 – Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Chief mechanical engineer and manager of Great Western Railway of Brazil 1892-1894, general manager of the Great Northern Railway in England 1902-1912, Director of the London and North Eastern Railway 1912-1945, dies (b. 1861).