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Events
January
January 4 – Sukkur rail disaster in Pakistan kills 307 people
January 15 – Via Rail discontinues Super Continental service and shifts The Canadian from its Canadian Pacific Railway to a Canadian National Railway route between Toronto and Vancouver, ending service to many cities and towns along the CP line, including Calgary and Regina.
February
February 4 – The last Edmondson railway tickets are issued for regular travel on British Rail, by the agent for Pembrey station in Wales.Farr, Michael Thomas Edmondson and his tickets 1991 author Andover 0-905033-13-2
March
March 7 – An accident on the Philadelphia subway near 30th Street Station, kills three and injures 150 people.
March 12 – The PNR North Main Line reopens to Malolos after almost three years of closure. It is part of the Metrotren program.Metrotren Inaugural https://flickr.com/photos/79691913@N05/9719461423/ Manila Chronicle May 11, 1990 May 6, 2021
March 30 – Keio Sagamihara Line, Chōfu to Hashimoto of Sagamihara route officially completed, and Moto-Yawata of Ichikawa・Shinjuku of Tokyo to Hashimoto of Sagamihara route direct commuter train service to start in Japan.December 2016
March 31 – Opening of the first phase of the Osaka Rapid Electric Tramway Line No. 7 高速電気軌道第7号線 (Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line) between Kyōbashi and Tsurumi-ryokuchi.Subway 2018 44
May
May – Zürcher Verkehrsverbund formed as a coordinated public transport network in the Swiss canton of Zürich.
May 6 – Cowan rail accident: A heritage steam train hauled by 3801 is rammed at Brooklyn, New South Wales, by a regular CityRail passenger train; six people lose their lives in the accident.
May 28 – An Alaska Railroad train derails 19 tank cars near Dunbar. Approximately 170,000 USgal L of diesel and jet fuel are spilled; the cleanup efforts last nearly three weeks.Combs, John 1997–2005 http://www.alaskarails.org/ARR-history.html Alaska Railroad History 2005-05-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20050413014144/http://www.alaskarails.org/ARR-history.html 13 April 2005 live
May 29 – Shore Line East commuter rail service in Connecticut inaugurated.
June
June 13 – The first section of the Genova, Italy, light metro system, the Metropolitana di Genova, is opened.Modern Tramway and Light Rail Transit, October 1990, p. 354. Ian Allan Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association.
July
July 2 – First direct Berlin S-Bahn service on the elevated Stadtbahn line between Alexanderplatz and Zoologischer Garten via Friedrichstraße station since erection of the Berlin Wall following its dismantling.
July 6 – Completion of the first MRT system in Singapore consisting of the North South line and East West line.
July 14 – The first light rail line in Los Angeles, the Blue Line, is opened.Taplin, Michael (1991). "City of the Automobile: Los Angeles looks to Light Rail". Light Rail Review 2, pp. 27–30. London: Platform 5 Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association. 1-872524-23-0."Transit: L.A. Metro" https://web.archive.org/web/20200830164233/http://original.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/467/34108/october-1990-page-42 2020-08-30 . Pacific RailNews, October 1990, p. 42. ISSN 8750-8486.
August
August 18 – Gråkallbanen, part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway is reopened after the city council permanently closed the tramway in 1988.Aspenberg Nils Carl På meterspor i Nidaros 1995 Baneforlaget Oslo 30
September
September 16 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang Railway is completed between Ürümqi and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan, and adding 500 km to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
December
December 1 – Construction crews on the Channel Tunnel from both England and France break through the last amount of rock separating the two tunnels, forming the first land link between the two countries for around 8,000 years.
December 31 – Minsk Metro's Avtozavodskaya Line opens between Traktornyi Zavod and Frunzenskaya.
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David L. Gunn steps down from leadership of the New York City Transit Authority.
Robert J. Ritchie succeeds William W. Stinson as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Gateway Western Railway begins operations over former Chicago and Alton Railroad tracks between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri.
The 66 series begins service on the Sakaisuji Line in Osaka, Japan.2013-01-24 ja:堺筋線 66系車両リフレッシュのご紹介 Introduction of Sakaisuji Line 66 series vehicle refresh http://www.kotsu.city.osaka.lg.jp/general/announce/w_new_info/w_new/list_h24_all/20130124_sakaisuji_66kei.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130227032715/http://www.kotsu.city.osaka.lg.jp/general/announce/w_new_info/w_new/list_h24_all/20130124_sakaisuji_66kei.html February 27, 2013 2013-01-25 Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau ja
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References
Footnotes
Citations
(February 2002), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, Trains Magazine, p. 17.
31 August 2018 長堀鶴見緑地線の歴史を辿る http://www.jametro.or.jp/upload/subway/FWdIafNFCVqR.pdf 31 January 2024 SUBWAY Japan Subway Association 42–45 ja Japan 8 218 0289-5668 Subway 2018