Английская Википедия:2017 in rail transport

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Events

January

• Шаблон:Flagicon January 1 – Phase I of New York City's Second Avenue Subway is opened for revenue service after almost a century of planning.
• Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon January 1–18 – First scheduled through railborne intermodal container freight service from Yiwu (China) to London via the New Eurasian Land Bridge and Channel Tunnel.
• Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon January 10 – Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway inaugurated throughout.
• Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon January 11 – Sale of English train operating company c2c by National Express to Trenitalia is agreed.
• Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon 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.
• Шаблон:Flagicon January 26 – Opening of Harbin Metro Line 3.

February

• Шаблон:Flagicon February 23 – High Speed 2 phase one gets parliamentary approval in the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017, enabling construction to start in 2017.
• February 24
  • Шаблон:Flagicon – The R Line and H Line extensions open as part of the FasTracks project in Denver, Colorado.
  • Шаблон:Flagicon – withdrawal of SL X10 trainsets.
• Шаблон:Flagicon 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.

March

• Шаблон:Flagicon March 2 – Taoyuan International Airport MRT opened.
• Шаблон:Flagicon March 25 – The Warm Springs station opens as part of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
• Шаблон:Flagicon – Tokyo Metro (former Eidan Electric Railway) phases out 01 series. Some trains are preserved or sent to Kumamoto Electric Railway.

April

• Шаблон:Flagicon April 3 – 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing.
• Шаблон:FlagiconШаблон:Flagicon April 28 – The Strasbourg tramway is extended over a new bridge across the Rhine to Kehl.

May

• Шаблон:Flagicon May 12 – Opening of Detroit's QLine.
• Шаблон:Flagicon May 19 – End of Slam-door era in the UK. The British Rail Class 121 is withdrawn from Aylesbury to Princes Risborough line after 57 years of service.
• Шаблон:Flagicon May 22 – Opening of the MBTA Commuter Rail's Boston Landing station on the Framingham/Worcester Line in Massachusetts.
• Шаблон:Flagicon May 26
  • 2017 Portland train attack.
  • Last Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus circus train runs.
• Шаблон:Flagicon May 31 – Official opening of Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, Шаблон:Convert of standard gauge track built with Chinese finance and expertise, cutting the Mombasa–Nairobi passenger journey time to 4½ hours, compared to 12 hours on the previous line.

June

• Шаблон:Flagicon June 16 – Harbin Metro Line 3 opened one infill station.
• Шаблон:Flagicon June 18 – Tuas West extension, a Шаблон:Convert extension of the East West MRT Line in Singapore, opens.
• Шаблон:Flagicon June 20 – June 2017 Brussels attack.
• Шаблон:Flagicon June 29 – Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit begins preview service.

July

• Шаблон:Flagicon July 2 – Completion of LGV Sud Europe Atlantique from Tours to Bordeaux and of LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire from Le Mans to Rennes with consequent major reshaping of Transport express régional services.
• Шаблон:Flagicon July 10 – Opening of Stockholm City Line.
• Шаблон:Flagicon July 17 – Full opening of MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line, from Semantan to Kajang. This includes Malaysia's second subway line, after the Kelana Jaya Line.

August

• Шаблон:Flagicon August 20 – South Western franchise (including Island Line) passenger train operating company franchise in England, previously operated by South West Trains, passes to South Western Railway, a joint venture between FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation of Hong Kong (30%).
• Шаблон:Flagicon August 23 – Auraiya train derailment.
• Шаблон:Flagicon August 25 – Opening of Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) commuter system in the North Bay area of San Francisco between northern Santa Rosa and downtown San Rafael, California.

September

• Шаблон:Flagicon September 15 – Parsons Green bombing.
• Шаблон:Flagicon September 21 – Granada Metro opens to passenger service.
• Шаблон:Flagicon September 23 – The grand opening of the Aarhus Letbane is cancelled several hours prior to the event due to missing security clearances from the Danish Transport Authority.
• Шаблон:Flagicon September 26 – Kaohsiung Circular Line (First Section) completed.

October

• Шаблон:Flagicon October 21 – Downtown MRT Line Phase 3 opened.

November

• Шаблон:Flagicon November 1 – Russian Railway Museum is opened to the public adjacent to Baltiysky railway station in Saint Petersburg.
• Шаблон:Flagicon November 18 – Länsimetro extension to Helsinki Metro is opened.
• Шаблон:Flagicon November 28 – First section (30 km) of Hyderabad Metro inaugurated.

December

• Шаблон:Flagicon December 4 – After being suspended for 4 years since 2013 due to technical problems, the Melaka Monorail service resumes.
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 10 – Opening of Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway. Berlin-Munich corridor is completed.
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 14 – Perpignan crash: A local train crashes into a school bus at a level crossing near Millas in the arrondissement of Perpignan in France, killing four pupils on the bus.
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 15 – Stoosbahn, the world's steepest mass transit funicular, officially opens, connecting Schlattli with Stoos.
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 17 – Opening of the Toronto subway Line 1 Yonge–University extension to Vaughan, Ontario.
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 18 – 2017 Washington train derailment: Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derails near DuPont, Washington, on its inaugural southbound run on the Point Defiance Bypass with three fatalities.
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 26 – Soekarno–Hatta Airport Rail Link in Jakarta started operations.

Unknown date

• Шаблон:Flagicon – Extension of DSB electrification to Esbjerg was expected to open.
• Шаблон:Flagicon – The new Tithorea–Leianokladi line, replacing the route via Bralos was expected to open.
• Шаблон:Flagicon – China re-launches 350 km/h train operations after 6 year break, now with standard-class Fuxing trainsets.

Deaths

• Шаблон:Flagicon August 28 – Steven Marshall, chief executive of Railtrack (born 1957).
• Шаблон:Flagicon December 16 – E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993-1998, president of Canadian National Railway 2003-2009, president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 2012-2017 and CEO of CSX Transportation in 2017 (born 1944).