This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2013.
Events edit
January edit
18 January – Brand new V250-high speed EMU's taken out of Fyra-service definitely due to poor quality.[citation needed]
28 January – New Orleans Regional Transit Authority Loyola Avenue Streetcar Line opened.[1]
February edit
10 February – opening of Milan Metro Line 5.[citation needed]
11 February – Manchester Metrolink light rail system East Manchester Line opened to Droylsden.[2]
24 February – The platforms at Togoshi-kōen Station, on the Tokyu Oimachi Line in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, are extended from three car lengths to five.[3]
March edit
- 16 March – Shibuya Station of the Tokyu Toyoko Line move to an underground station from ground station, with direct commuter express trains beginning at Motomachi-Chūkagai of Yokohama heading to Hanno of the Seibu Ikebukuro Line or Kawagoeshi of the Tobu Tojo Line, via the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line.[4] Tokyu Toyoko Line ends serving Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line trains. However, Hibiya Line trains are still able to run more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) for one trip during through-train services.[5]
23 March – Paris Métro Line 4 is extended from Porte d'Orléans to Mairie de Montrouge.[6]
April edit
- 14 April – Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail Green Line extends service west from downtown Salt Lake City to the Salt Lake City International Airport.[7]
- 26 April
– The Yongin Everline driverless metro opens for service in southern Seoul.[8]- – RTD's W-Line light rail corridor extends service west from Denver Union Station to Golden. This is the first FasTracks corridor to be completed.[9]
May edit
- 10 May – Norfolk Southern Railway announces the appointment of James A. Squires to become the railroad's new president effective 1 June.[10]
- 26 May – National Express' Essex Thameside franchise, c2c expires; extended through 2014.[citation needed]
- 27 May – CapeFLYER summer weekend service from Boston, Massachusetts to Cape Cod begun.[11]
July edit
1 July – Opening of Hangzhou–Ningbo High-Speed Railway and Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway.[12]
6 July – Lac-Mégantic derailment: 47 people are killed in explosions and fire after an unattended train carrying Bakken formation crude oil runs away and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. It becomes the deadliest rail accident in Canadian history since 1864.[citation needed]
24 July – Santiago de Compostela derailment: 79 people are killed when an Alvia train derails at excessive speed on a curve in Galicia (Spain).[citation needed]
August edit
- 18 August – Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail Blue Line extends service further south from Sandy to Draper.[13]
September edit
- 15 September – Xi'an Metro Line 1 opened.[14]
- 26 September – Harbin Metro Line 1 opened.
October edit
- 15 October – The Kyushu Railway Company (Japan Railways Group) launches the 'Seven Stars in Kyushu' luxury sleeping car excursion train from Hakata Station with dedicated diesel locomotive haulage.[15]
29 October – Completion of Marmaray suburban rail project in Istanbul with official opening of its Marmaray Tunnel under the Bosphorus, the first standard gauge rail connection between Europe and Asia.[16]
November edit
3 November – Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern funicular opens.[17]
December edit
- 8 December – Utah Transit Authority's S Line (formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar) opens with service from South Salt Lake to the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.[18]
22 December – Downtown MRT Line Phase 1 scheduled to open.[citation needed]- 28 December – Opening of high speed Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway in southern China, fully completing the Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen High-Speed Railway.[19]
- 28 December – Wuhan Metro Line 4 and Suzhou Metro Line 2, including Zhengzhou Metro has been opened.[citation needed]
- 29 December – Shanghai Metro Lines 12 and 16 opened.[citation needed]
Deaths edit
- 28 May – Isabel Benham, American railroad financial expert, dies (b. 1909).
- 23 August – Richard J. Corman, founder and owner of R.J. Corman Railroad Group, dies (b. 1955).
Industry awards edit
Japan edit
- Awards presented by the Japan Railfan Club
- 2013 Blue Ribbon Award: Tokyo Metro 1000 series EMU[20]
References edit
- ^ "Capital Projects". New Orleans Regional Transit Authority. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ Kirby, Dean (4 December 2012). "Opening of Metrolink tram service to Droylsden delayed until February 2013". Manchester Evening News. Chadderton, England. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ 東急大井町線戸越公園駅でのドアカット解消 [Selective door-opening eliminated at Togoshi-kōen Station on Tokyu Oimachi Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
- ^ 安井功 (15 March 2013). "さよなら東横線渋谷駅…大改造計画が始動" [Goodbye Tōyoko Line Shibuya Station ... Major remodeling plan started]. MSN Sankei News. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ "東急東横線・東京メトロ日比谷線の相互直通運転が終了" [Through operation between the Tokyu Tōyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line ends]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 16 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ à 04h10, Par Le 23 mars 2013 (23 March 2013). "La ligne 4 du métro arrive à Montrouge". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Airport TRAX Line to Open April 14". Utah Transit Authority. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ "YONGIN EVERLINE LRT: 5TH FULLY AUTOMATED METRO LINE IN SOUTH KOREA". UITP. 29 April 2013.
- ^ "RTD celebrates the successful grand opening of the West Rail Line" (PDF). Denver: RTD. 9 April 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Norfolk Southern Corporation (10 May 2013). "Norfolk Southern Names Six to Senior Management Positions" (Press release). Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- ^ Cassidy, Patrick (13 December 2012). "Weekend passenger rail service to run seasonally between Cape and Boston". The Standard-Times. New Bedford, Massachusetts. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ^ "New high-speed railways open to promote intercity development". Xinhua. 1 July 2013. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ^ Van Eyck, Zack (14 March 1999). "Bus routes will change when TRAX arrives". Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "西安地铁一号线15日正式通车试运营". 14 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ "ななつ星in九州"用編成" ["Seven Stars in Kyushu" trainset]. Japan Railfan Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 53, no. 631. Japan: Koyusha. November 2013. pp. 44–45.
- ^ "Marmaray tüneli resmen açıldı" [Marmary Tunnel officially opened]. bbc.com/turkce (in Turkish). 29 October 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ "8783.03 Standseilbahn Kraftwerk Linth-Limmern Tierfehd - Maschinenkaverne". Seilbahndatenbank (in German). Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Vo-Duc, Viviane (5 September 2013). "New streetcar S-line set to open Dec. 8 in Sugar House". Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^ "Xiamen-Shenzhen HSR expected to open to traffic by end of 2013". What's on Xiamen. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
- ^ 東京地下鉄1000系「ブルーリボン賞」受賞記念式典開催 ["Blue Ribbon Award" presentation ceremony held for Tokyo Metro 1000 series]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 42, no. 356. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. December 2013. p. 60.