2013 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that are currently scheduled to occur in 2013. Please be aware that the actual dates that these events occur on may differ substantially from what is shown here.

Events

By month

January events

• January 18 - Brand new V250-high speed EMU's taken out of Fyra-service definitely due to poor quality.
• January 28 - New Orleans Regional Transit Authority Loyola Avenue Streetcar Line opened.^[1]

February events

• February 11 - Manchester Metrolink light rail system East Manchester line opened to Droylsden.^[2]
• February 24 – The platforms at Togoshi-kōen Station, on the Tokyu Oimachi Line in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, are extended from three car lengths to five.^[3]

April events

• April 14 - Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail Green Line extends service west from downtown Salt Lake City to the Salt Lake City International Airport.^[4]
• April 26 - RTD's W-Line light rail corridor extends service west from Denver Union Station to Golden. This is the first FasTracks corridor to be completed.^[5]

May events

• May 10 – Norfolk Southern Railway announces the appointment of James A. Squires to become the railroad's new president effective 1 June.^[6]
• May 26 - National Express Group's LTS Rail franchise, c2c expires.
• May 27 - CapeFLYER summer weekend service from Boston, Massachusetts to Cape Cod begun.^[7]

July events

• July 1 – Opening of Hangzhou–Ningbo High-Speed Railway and Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway.^[8]
• July 6 – 47 people are killed in explosions and fire after an unattended train carrying Bakken formation crude oil runs away and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. It becomes the deadliest rail accident in Canadian history since 1864.

August events

• August 18 - Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail Blue Line extends service further south from Sandy to Draper.^[9]

September events

• September 15 – Xi'an Metro Line 1 opens in China.^[10]

October events

• October 29 - Completion of Marmaray suburban rail project in Istanbul with official opening of its tunnel under the Bosphorus.

December events

• December 8 - Utah Transit Authority's S Line (formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar) opens with service from South Salt Lake to the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.^[11]
• – Phase 1 of the Dulles Corridor Metro Project, also known as the Silver Line, is expected to open as far as Reston, Virginia, connecting Fairfax County suburbs to the Washington Metro system.^[12]
• December 22 – Downtown MRT Line Phase 1 scheduled to open.
• December 28 – Opening of high speed Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway in southern China, fully completing the Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen High-Speed Railway.^[13]
• December 28 - Wuhan Metro Line 4 and Suzhou Metro Line 2, including Zhengzhou Metro has been opened.
• December 29 - Shanghai Metro Lines 12 and 16 opened.

Unknown date events

• – A new line for passenger trains only connecting Harbin, Dalian, Changchun and Shenyang, is scheduled to open.^[14]
• – The first segment of a new high-speed rail line in Morocco between Tangier and Kenitra, a line that will eventually extend to Marrakech, is scheduled to open.^[15]
• – Completion of suburban rail network electrification in Auckland, New Zealand, sponsored by the regional council.^[16]
• – Completion of the first phase of Rail Baltica connecting Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas and Warsaw.^[17]

Deaths

• 28 May – Isabel Benham, American railroad financial expert, dies (b. 1909).
• 23 August – Richard J. Corman, founder and owner of R.J. Corman Railroad Group, dies (b. 1955).

Industry awards

Japan

Awards presented by the Japan Railfan Club

• 2013 Blue Ribbon Award: Tokyo Metro 1000 series EMU
• 2013 Laurel Prize:

References