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| 1999, 2000, 2001 |
| Years in rail transport |
| 1999 in rail transport 2000 in rail transport 2001 in rail transport |
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2000.
Contents |
Events
January events
- January 4 - The Åsta accident, a northbound BM92 multiple unit and a southbound passenger train headed by a Di 3 locomotive collided on Norway's Rørosbanen line near Åsta station, killing 19 people.
- January 28 - Amtrak begins to operate an electric service throughout between New York and Boston.1
- January 29 - The Termini Station, in Rome, opens.
February events
- February 4 - German railway saboteur Klaus-Peter Sabotta is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted murder and extortion.
May events
- May 23 - General Motors Electro-Motive Division delivers to the Union Pacific Railroad the first five EMD SD70M diesel locomotives in the largest single order (1,000 locomotives) for diesel locomotives ever by a single railroad.2
June events
- June 7 - The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, originally built for rail traffic in 1943, opens for combined rail/highway traffic, making it the longest combined rail/highway tunnel in North America.
July events
- July 1 – Opening of the Oresund Bridge bridge-tunnel carrying road traffic and the Oresund Railway between Denmark and Sweden.3
- July 4 - Amtrak's new Bakersfield Station opens.
- July 11 - VIA Rail Canada announces that it will use five sleeping cars leased from Amtrak for runs between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba.
- July 14 - The United States Surface Transportation Board's temporary moratorium on railroad mergers is upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; the ruling contributes to the failure of the proposed BNSF/CN merger.
- July 21 - Manchester Metrolink, in Manchester, England, is extended to Eccles.
October events
- October 2 - VIA Rail operates a funeral train for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau between Ottawa and Montreal; the train's journey, which was frequently slowed through towns for the numerous well-wishers, was documented by a CBC news helicopter.4
- October 17 - The Hatfield rail crash, south of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, occurs when a train traveling at 115 mph derails due to a rail that breaks under it. 4 people are killed, and there is considerable disruption to the national rail network as the infrastructure is reviewed.5
- October 29 - Amtrak upgrades service on the California Zephyr to daily.
November events
- November 11 - An faulty heater aboard a funicular train in Kaprun, Austria, starts a fire in the train's brake fluid while the train is in a tunnel; only four of the train's 155 passengers survived the fire in the Kaprun disaster.
Unknown date events
- Robert Krebs resigns as Chief Executive Officer of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
- The fourth and final phase of Cairo Metro's Line Two (Yellow) opens.
- Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway and Canadian National Railway file for a merger, but the merger is denied by regulatory agencies.
- The Iwateichinohe Tunnel on the Morioka-Hachinohe section of Japan's Tōhoku Shinkansen is completed; at 25.8 km (16 miles) long, it is the longest land rail tunnel to date.
Deaths
Awards
North America
| Group | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Norfolk Southern Railway | ||
| B | Kansas City Southern Railway | ||
| C | Gateway Western Railway | ||
| S&T | Belt Railway of Chicago |
- Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
- 2000 Railroader of the Year: The railroad worker (the award for 2000 was changed to "Railroader of the Century")
- 2000 Regional Railroad of the Year: Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad
- 2000 Short Line Railroad of the Year: Arkansas Midland Railroad
United Kingdom
- 2000:
References
- Some of the events listed here were translated from 2000 dans les chemins de fer, the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.
- Green, Timothy C. (September 1, 2004), Train Scan August 2000. Retrieved July 7, 2005.
- ^ Cudahy, Brian J. (2003). A Century of Subways. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-2292-6.
- ^ General Motors Electro-Motive Division (May 23, 2000). "General Motors' Electro Motive ships first five locomotives for huge Union Pacific order". Retrieved on 2005-04-13.
- ^ "Øresund Bridge". Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ "Significant dates in Ottawa railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (September 7, 2005). Retrieved on 2005-09-30.
- ^ Left, Sarah (2002-01-15). "Key dates in Britain's railway history", The Guardian Unlimited.
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- This page was last modified on 3 January 2009, at 12:58.
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