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This article lists events related to rail transport that are currently scheduled to occur in 2010. Please be aware that the actual dates that these events occur on may differ substantially from what is shown here.
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January events
June events
- The newly extended East London Railway is expected to begin service between West Croydon, Crystal Palace and Dalston Junction.1
Unknown date events
- Opening of Omaha Steetcar Phase 1- - Opening of Docklands Light Railway extension from Canning Town to the new Stratford International station, taking over the North London Line infrastructure (which closed on December 9, 2006) and linking the Docklands area with domestic and international high-speed services on High Speed 1 and with the 2012 Olympic Games site.234
- The English Electric DM class EMUs of Tranz Metro will be replaced by the new FM class EMUs made in South Korea.
- The government of Gauteng Province, South Africa, expects to complete a new rail connection between Johannesburg, Tschwane and Johannesburg International Airport before the opening of the Football World Cup series.5
- The Korea Train Express route is expected to shift to a dedicated high speed train right-of-way, which will reduce travel time between Seoul and Busan from 160 minutes to 116 minutes.
- Work is expected to be completed on the Iron Silk Road high speed railway line connecting China to mainland Europe.6
- The extension of the Tōhoku Shinkansen in Japan from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori is expected to open.
- New high speed rail service between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv is scheduled to begin operations.7- - The first line of the Jerusalem Light Rail is expected to open. It will run from Pisgat Ze'ev in the northeast, south along Road 60 to Jaffa Road (Rehov Yaffo). From there, it will run along Jaffa Road westward to the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, and continue to the southwest, crossing the Chords Bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava, along Herzl Boulevard to Beit HaKerem and terminate near Mount Herzl.
- - The second maglev train route in China is expected to open between Shanghai and Hangzhou.8
- Bremen S-Bahn is expected to be operational by 2010.
- The Circle MRT Line Stage 1 and 2 will be ready for service using the 3 car Alstom Train.
- The railway tunnel, Marmaray under Turkey's Bosphorus strait is expected to open for service.
- Work on converting Paris Métro Line 1 to fully driverless automated operations is expected to be completed.9
References
- ^ "TfL awards contract to build new East London Railway", Infrasite.net (2006-10-23). Retrieved on 7 November 2006.
- ^ "DLR on track for Stratford International as £67m contract awarded".
- ^ Docklands Light Railway. "Stratford International extension approved". Retrieved on 2006-10-25.
- ^ "Major contract award signals start of work on DLR Stratford International Extension".
- ^ RailStaff (August 2, 2005), Johannesburg’s 80 KM Airport Link to be ready for Football World Cup. Retrieved August 4, 2005.
- ^ Page, Jeremy; The Australian (December 6, 2005), Beijing backs plan for silk railroad link to Europe. Retrieved December 5, 2005.
- ^ Lefkovits, Etgar; Jerusalem Post (February 8, 2006), Jerusalem-TA high-speed railway to be online in 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2006.
- ^ Xinhua (March 6, 2006), Maglev railway to link Hangzhou, Shanghai. Retrieved March 6, 2006.
- ^ "New section of Metro Line 14 opened", InfraSite.net (2007-07-02). Retrieved on 6 July 2007.
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