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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on July 31.

Events

1845 – Scottish Midland Junction Railway is authorised to link Scottish Central Railway at Perth to the Aberdeen Railway at Forfar.^[1]

1917 – Simbei Kunisawa succeeds Yujiro Nakamura as president of South Manchuria Railway.
1944 – The last Jewish deportees train in France, carrying 1300 people, leaves Drancy deportation camp to Auschwitz.
1971 – The Monon Railroad is merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
1987 – Queen Elizabeth II presides over the opening ceremonies of the Docklands Light Railway in London, England.
1996 – Canadian Pacific Railway makes the last run of a grain load in a 40 ft boxcar with the final deliveries of grain to Thunder Bay, Ontario.^[2]

1820 – John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad starting in 1858, is born (d. 1884)
1921 – James I. C. Boyd, British railway historian, is born (d. 2009).

1858 – Edward Pease, first owner of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, dies (b. 1767).
1885 – Robert F. Fairlie, English steam locomotive builder, dies (b. 1831).

^ Butt, R.V.G. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (first ed.). Sparkford: Pastrick & Stevens Ltd. ISBN 1 8526 0508 1.
^ McDonnell, Greg (April 1997). "In Canada, finis for 40-footers". Trains Magazine. 57 (4): 17.