2000 In Rail Transport
Events
January events
January 29
- The
Rome-Termini
station, in
Italy
, opens.
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 21
-
Manchester Metrolink
, in
Manchester
,
England
, is extended to Eccles.
October events
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.
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; none 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 Santa Fe Railway
The fourth and final phase of
Cairo Metro
's Line Two (Yellow) opens.
Deaths
References
Some of the events listed here were translated from
2003 dans les chemins de fer
, the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.
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