2000 in rail transport
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1999 in rail transport
2000 in rail transport
2001 in rail transport
2000 in rail transport
2001 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2000.
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[edit] Events
[edit] 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.
[edit] February events
February 4 - German railway saboteur Klaus-Peter Sabotta is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempted murder and extortion.
[edit] 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]
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 TÅhoku Shinkansen is completed; at 25.8 km (16 miles) long, it is the longest land rail tunnel to date.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Awards
[edit] North America
Group Gold medal Silver medal Bronze medal
- 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
[edit] United Kingdom
2000:
[edit] 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.
