2000 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2000.
Events
January events
February events
April events
- April – In Ireland, the DART system is finally extended southwards from Bray to Greystones.
- April 11 – CSX Transportation chairman and CEO John W. Snow succeeds Ronald J. Conway as president of the railroad.[2]
- April 20–28 – Former NSWGR's 38 class locomotives 3801 and 3830 head to Melbourne, Victoria called the Millennium Aurora by the NSW Rail Transport Museum during the Easter Long Weekend. This would be the last time that NSW steam will ever visit Victoria.
May events
- May 23 – General Motors Electro-Motive Division delivers to the Union Pacific Railroad the first five EMD SD70M diesel locomotives in the largest single order (1,000 locomotives) for diesel locomotives ever by a single railroad.[3]
June events
- June 7 – The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, originally built for rail traffic in 1943, opens for combined rail/highway traffic, making it the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America.
July events
October events
December events
Unknown date events
- Robert Krebs resigns as Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
- The fourth and final phase of Cairo Metro's Line Two (Yellow) opens.
- Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway and Canadian National Railway file for a merger, but the merger is denied by regulatory agencies.
- The Iwateichinohe Tunnel on the Morioka-Hachinohe section of Japan's Tōhoku Shinkansen is completed; at 25.8 km (16.0 mi) long, it is the longest land rail tunnel to date.
- In Ireland, the Dublin Area Rapid Transit system is extended northwards from Howth Junction to Malahide.
Accidents
- January 4 – The Åsta accident, a northbound BM92 multiple unit and a southbound passenger train headed by a Di 3 locomotive collided on Norway's Rørosbanen line near Åsta station, killing 19 people.
- February 6 – The Brühl train disaster; in Brühl, Germany killed 9 when a train negotiated a low speed turnout at three times the correct speed and derailed, on the West Rhine Railway.
- March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: a sideswipe collision of two Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people near Naka-Meguro Station.
- October 17 – The Hatfield rail crash, south of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, occurs when a train traveling at 115 mph derails due to a rail that breaks under it. 4 people are killed, and there is considerable disruption to the national rail network as the infrastructure is reviewed.[6]
- November 11 – An faulty heater aboard a funicular train in Kaprun, Austria, starts a fire in the train's brake fluid while the train is in a tunnel; only four of the train's 155 passengers survived the fire in the Kaprun disaster.
- December 2 – The Sarai Banjara rail disaster in the Punjab, India killed 46 and injured at least 150 when a freight train derailed into the path of a passenger train.
- December 30 – The Rizal Day bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines leaving 22 dead.
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Industry awards
Japan
- Awards presented by Japan Railfan Club
North America
- 2000 E. H. Harriman Awards
- Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
United Kingdom
- Train Operator of the Year
References
- ↑ Cudahy, Brian J. (2003). A Century of Subways. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-2292-6.
- ↑ Stephens, Bill (July 2000). "CSX still struggling; Snow re-assumes reins". Trains (Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing) 60 (7): 16–18. ISSN 0041-0934.
- ↑ General Motors Electro-Motive Division (May 23, 2000). "General Motors' Electro Motive ships first five locomotives for huge Union Pacific order". Archived from the original on March 14, 2006. Retrieved April 13, 2005.
- ↑ "Øresund Bridge". Retrieved August 1, 2007.
- ↑ "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. September 7, 2005. Archived from the original on October 4, 2005. Retrieved September 30, 2005.
- ↑ Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved July 7, 2007.