2002 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2002.
Events
January events
February events
April events
May events
June events
July events
August events
October events
November events
- November 22 – The Toronto Transit Commission opens the Sheppard Subway, connecting the Sheppard-Yonge and Don Mills stations.[9]
- November 23 – Expansion opens at Fremont-Centerville (Amtrak station).
December events
- December – National Express Group hands back its M>Train, M>Tram and V/Line public transport franchises in Victoria, Australia to the state government due to financial instability.
- December – The Tōhoku Shinkansen in Japan is extended from Morioka to Hachinohe.
- December 10 – Inauguration Belgian High Speed Line 2 (HSL 2 – Leuven<>Ans) by Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant.
- December 15 – All first-class cars on the TGV become non-smoking cars.
- December 24 – First line of the Delhi Metro is inaugurated in India.[10]
- December 27 – The first X'Trapolis train enters service with Connex in Melbourne, Australia.
Unknown date events
Accidents
- January 18 – The Minot train derailment occurred in Minot, North Dakota on when a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed, spilling hazardous materials.
- February 6 – Charlotte's Dale train crash: collision of a commuter and a freight train near Durban in South Africa kills 24 people.
- February 20 – Al Ayyat train disaster at Reqa Al-Gharbiya in Egypt: a fire on a train running from Cairo to Luxor kills at least 383 and injures over 65.
- February 27 – Godhra train burning: 59 Hindu pilgrims die aboard the Sabarmati Express train burned by Muslim extremists at Godhra in the Indian state of Gujarat.
- May 2 – An eastbound Canadian National train collides with a trailer near Firmdale, Manitoba, Canada; about 20 cars carrying plastic pellets, benzene, glycol and hexane catch fire, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200 local residents.[12]
- May 10 – The Potters Bar rail crash occurs at Potters Bar, north of London, England, when a northbound passenger train derails at high speed, killing seven and seriously injuring another eleven.
- May 13 – Jaunpur train crash: the Shramjivi Express, travelling from New Delhi to Patna, India, strikes a sabotaged section of rail and derails at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, killing 12 people.
- May 25 – The Tenga rail disaster of May 2002 occurred at Tenga 40 km north-west from Maputo, Mozambique; there were 192 deaths with 167 injured.
- June 4 – The Kasganj level crossing disaster happened near the town of Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh, India. An express train collided with a bus, killing 49 people.
- June 24 – In the Igandu train disaster, a large passenger train in Tanzania with over 1,200 people on board rolls backwards down a hill into a stationary goods train, killing 281 people.
- September 10 – At least 130 people are killed in the Rafiganj train disaster in India, where a passenger train derails on a bridge and falls into a river. Naxalite sabotage is suspected.
- September 15 - A Norfolk Southern freight train derails in Farragut, Tennessee resulting in a hazardous materials release of fuming Sulfuric acid and evacuation of more than 2,600 nearby residents for nearly three days. Damage was estimated at just over one million USD.[13]
- December 21 – The Kurnool train crash happened in Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India, when a passenger train derailed, killing 20 people.
Railway accidents in 2002 (2002) |
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- Minot, United States (18 January)
- Charlotte's Dale, South Africa (6 February)
- Al Ayyat, Egypt (21 February)
- Potters Bar, United Kingdom (10 May)
- Jaunpur, India (13 May)
- Tenga, Mozambique (25 May)
- Kasganj, India (4 June)
- Igandu, Tanzania (24 June)
- Rometta Marea, Italy (20 July)
- Rafiganj, India (10 September)
- Farragut, United States (15 September)
- Kurnool, India (21 December)
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Awards
Japan
- Awards presented by Japan Railfan Club
North America
- 2002 E. H. Harriman Awards
- Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
United Kingdom
- Train Operator of the Year
References
Some of the events listed here were translated from 2002 dans les chemins de fer, the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.
- ↑ Reh, Vincent (February 2002). "Muskingum Electric Railroad just about done". Trains Magazine: p. 22–23.
- ↑ "Iowa Interstate operates first coal train to Cedar Rapids". Trains Magazine: p. 22. May 2002.
- ↑ Left, Sarah (January 15, 2002). "Key dates in Britain's railway history". The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 7 July 2007.
- ↑ "David M. Laney Joins Amtrak's Board of Directors" (Press release). Amtrak. November 26, 2002. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
- ↑ "EMD and Porterbrook Win Contract For First Belgian Private Railway" (Press release). General Motors Electro-Motive Division. April 4, 2002. Retrieved April 13, 2005.
- ↑ "BNSF Board Elects CEO Matt Rose Chairman Succeeding Rob Krebs, Who is Retiring" (Press release). BNSF Railway. March 21, 2002. Archived from the original on 10 November 2006. Retrieved December 6, 2006.
- ↑ "EMD to provide locomotives to Norway" (Press release). General Motors Electro-Motive Division. July 4, 2002. Retrieved April 13, 2005.
- ↑ "IMRL Sale Final; IC&E Begins Operations Tomorrow" (Press release). Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. July 29, 2002. Archived from the original on 15 March 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2005.
- ↑ "Toronto Transit Commission – History". City of Toronto. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
- ↑ "Indian PM launches Delhi metro". BBC News. December 24, 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑ Choudhury, Iqbaluddin; Rahman, Mostafizur (2002). "Jamuna bridge and dual-gauging unite the BR network". Railway Gazette International 158: 326–7. Retrieved 9 September 2007.
- ↑ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 16, 2005. Archived from the original on 9 August 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
- ↑ Railroad Accident Brief: Derailment of Norfolk Southern Train 15T at Farragut, Tennessee, September 15, 2002. Washington, DC: National Transportation Safety Board. 2003. p. 8.