2017 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2017.
Events
January events
- January 1 – Phase I of New York City's Second Avenue Subway is opened for revenue service after almost a century of planning.[1]
- January 1–January 18 – First scheduled through railborne intermodal container freight service from Yiwu (China) to London via the New Eurasian Land Bridge and Channel Tunnel.[2]
- January 10 – Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway inaugurated throughout.[3][4][5]
- January 11 – Sale of English train operating company c2c by National Express to Trenitalia is agreed.[6]
- January 14 – A Serbian Railways train decorated with Serbian propaganda intended to run from Belgrade to North Mitrovica is turned back at Raška by order of the Serbian Prime Minister amidst claims that the authorities in Kosovo would prevent it from crossing their border.[7]
February events
- February 24 – The R Line and H Line extensions opened in Denver, Colorado, part of the FasTracks project.[8]
- February 26 – Saudi Railway Company opens the SAR Riyadh-Qurayyat Line to passengers from King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, to the Al-Qassim Region in Saudi Arabia.[9]
March events
- March 25 – The Warm Springs station opens as part of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.[10]
April events
- April 3 – 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing.
- April 28 – The Strasbourg tramway is extended over a new bridge across the Rhine to Kehl.[11]
May events
- May 12 – Opening of Detroit's QLINE.[12]
- May – Expected extension of DSB railway electrification system to Esbjerg.[11]
- May 22 – Opening of the MBTA Commuter Rail's Boston Landing station on the Framingham/Worcester Line in Massachusetts.[13]
- May 26 – 2017 Portland train attack
- May 31 – Official opening of Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, 485 km (301 mi) of standard gauge track built with Chinese finance and expertise, cutting the Mombasa–Nairobi passenger journey time to four-and-a-half hours, compared to 12 hours on the previous line.[14]
June events
- June 29 – Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit begins preview service.[15]
- June – Expected opening of new Tithorea–Leianokladi line, replacing the route via Bralos.[11]
July events
- July 2 –Completion of LGV Sud Europe Atlantique from Tours to Bordeaux[16] and of LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire from Le Mans to Rennes[17] with consequent major reshaping of Transport express régional services.[11]
- July 10 – Opening of Stockholm City Line.[18]
August events
- August 20 – South Western (including Island Line) passenger train operating company franchise in England, previously operated by Stagecoach Group,[19] passes to South Western Railway, a joint venture between FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation of Hong Kong (30%).[20]
September events
- September 23 – Expected opening of Aarhus Letbane first stage.[21]
October events
- October – Expected completion of the first new railway in Croatia in 50 years, from Gradec to Sveti Ivan Žabno.[11]
- October 31 – West midlands train operating company franchise in England, previously operated by London Midland, expires.
December events
- December 8 – Expected opening of Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway.[11]
- December – Expected opening of the Line 1 Yonge–University extension to Vaughan.
- December – Aarhus Letbane extension south to Odder.[21]
- December – Expected introduction of through Eurostar passenger services between London (St Pancras International) and Amsterdam (Centraal).[22]
- December – Expected opening of the Berryessa segment of the Silicon Valley BART extension.
Unknown date events
- – Tuas West extension, a 7.5-kilometre (4.7 mi) extension of the East West MRT Line in Singapore, scheduled to open.[23]
- – Downtown MRT Line Phrase 3 scheduled to open.
- – Expected start of Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit commuter services in San Francisco's North Bay between San Rafael and Santa Rosa.
- – Expected opening of the FasTracks commuter rail G Line in Denver, Colorado.[24]
- – Expected opening of Phase 1 (South Florida) portion of Brightline higher-speed rail in Florida.
- – Expected opening of Milan Metro line 1 Extension from Sesto Primo Maggio to Monza.[25]
References
- ↑ McCowan, Candace (2016-12-31). "Decades in the making, Second Avenue Subway set to open to the public". ABC7 New York. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
- ↑ "China to London rail freight service launched". Railway Gazette. 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
- ↑ "China-built railway linking Ethiopia and Djibouti officially opens for business". Shanghaiist. 2017-01-12.
- ↑ "Ethiopia: Portion of Ethio-Djibouti Railway to Be Inaugurated Tomorrow". 2merkato.com. 2017-01-09.
- ↑ Sridharan, Vasudevan (2017-01-11). "China-built rail network in African heartland inaugurated". International Business Times.
- ↑ "National Express to sell c2c to Italian railways". Railnews. 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
- ↑ "Serbian train sparks escalation in tensions with Kosovo". BBC News. BBC. 2017-01-14. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ↑ "R Line from Aurora to Lone Tree to open in February". FOX 31 Denver. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
- ↑ "SAR launches Riyadh-Qassim railway line". Arab News. 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ↑ "All Aboard: Warm Springs BART Station Kicks Off Service". NBC Bay Area. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "What to do, Where to go in 2017". Today's Railways Europe (253): 42–3. January 2017.
- ↑ Fleming, Leonard (March 9, 2017). "QLine to begin offering rides on May 12". Detroit News. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
- ↑ "Brighton Commuter Rail Station Set To Open In May". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
- ↑ "Kenya opens Nairobi-Mombasa Madaraka Express railway". BBC News. 2017-05-31. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ↑ Prado, Mark (26 June 2017). "SMART offers free ‘preview’ service starting Thursday". Marin Independent Journal. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Euroduplex Atlantique sets to serve Bordeaux". Railway Gazette. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ↑ "LGV Bretagne–Pays de la Loire. Calendrier tenu!". Le Télégramme. 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ↑ "Stockholm City Line set for July 2017 opening". International Railway Journal. 2016-11-03. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ↑ "SouthWestern Franchise Agreement" (PDF). gov.uk. Government of The United Kingdom. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
- ↑ "First.MTR joint venture wins South Western franchise". Railway Gazette. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- 1 2 "Aarhus light rail to open in September". Metro Report International. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ↑ Barrow, Keith (2016-10-12). "Eurostar Amsterdam timetable emerges". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
- ↑ "Four New Stations on Tuas West Extension on Track for Completion by 2016". Factsheet. Singapore: Land Transport Authority. 2015-10-29. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
- ↑ Paul, Jesse (2016-11-18). "RTD will not open G-Line or R-Line before end of year as planned". The Denver Post. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- ↑ http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie/cronaca/11_marzo_14/monza-metro-190217793326.shtml
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