April 2005 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in April 2005.

Events

April 1
All former BC Rail systems and operations are fully integrated into those of the purchasing railroad, Canadian National Railway.[1]
Kansas City Southern Railway completes its controlling interest purchase of TFM.
OmniTRAX purchases Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado RailNet, Georgia and Florida RailNet and Illinois RailNet from North American RailNet.
April 4
East Japan Railway Company and Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit introduce women-only passenger cars in trains on the Saikyo and Rinkai Lines to deter groping.[2]
The sale of General Motors Electro-Motive Division to Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners is completed; the new company is known as Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD).[3]
April 11
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty signs into law a bonding bill for the Northstar Corridor Development Authority in Minneapolis worth US$866 million.
April 13
The transport ministry of Bulgaria issues the first freight transport license to a private company, Bulgarian Railroad Company, to operate on the nation's rail network.[4]
April 14
Nineteen cars of a southbound Union Pacific train operating on Canadian National Railway tracks south of Superior, Wisconsin, derail and cause a forest fire near Solon Springs, Wisconsin.[5]
April 15
Amtrak cancels all Acela Express trains between Washington, DC, New York City and Boston as cracks are found in the brakes on a majority of the trainsets' coaches.[6]
SEPTA begins construction on an US$85 million project to replace and upgrade signal, communications and track switch equipment between its Wayne Junction and Glenside stations
April 16
Alaska Railroad opens its new headquarters building and operations center in Anchorage, Alaska.[7]
April 20
UTA TRAX, in Salt Lake City, Utah, begins construction of its 900 South Station, the railroad's first new station in six years; this is the first station for the railroad that is to be built in a mainly residential area.
April 21
Vadodara rail collision occurred at the village of Samlaya near Vadodara in Gujarat, Western India, when the Sabarmati Express passenger train crashed at high speed into a stationary goods train carrying cement, killing at least 17.
April 23
Los Angeles Metrolink opens a new station in Palmdale on the system's Antelope Valley line.[8]
April 25
Amagasaki rail crash: a JR West commuter train derails and strikes an apartment building in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, killing 106 and injuring more than 460 others.
April 26
Polgahawela level crossing collision: bus collides with Sri Lanka Railways train at a level crossing near Polgahawela; 37 bus passengers die.
April 28
English Welsh & Scottish acquires the assets of Probotec Limited, the leading manufacturer of railroad freight car suspension systems in Europe.[9]
Swiss engineers blast through the last section of rock on the first bore of the Loetschberg base tunnel project under the Alps.[10] See also Swiss finish drilling world's longest overland tunnel
April 30
English Welsh & Scottish was expected to close a deal that will allow the railway to operate freight trains through the Channel Tunnel; such operations would make EWS one of the first non-governmental companies to operate trains on France's national rail network.

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References

Trains News Wire references

References

  1. ↑ http://cn.ca/productsservices/BCRail/en_BCRail.shtml
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ "The Leading GME MD Site on the Net". GMEMD.com.
  4. ↑ "Bnn, Bulgarian news network - online news agency \ Бнм, Българска новинарска мрежа". Bgnewsnet.com.
  5. ↑ Archived April 18, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑
  8. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 27, 2005. Retrieved May 4, 2005.
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ Archived May 7, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ Archived April 30, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ↑ "CN – BC Rail Systems Integration". Cn.ca.
  13. ↑ "Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners Complete Acquisition of Electro-Motive from General Motors". Gmemd.com.
  14. ↑ Amtrak Suspends Acela Trains After Finding Brake Problems
  15. ↑ Kansas City Southern Announces Closing of TFM Transaction; Naming of TFM Interim CEO
  16. ↑ Railroad opens new operations center
  17. ↑ EWS close to Channel Tunnel deal Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ Metrolink opens Palmdale commuter station Archived May 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  19. ↑ Swiss complete digging Alpine tunnel Archived May 7, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  20. ↑ Tokyo introduces women-only trains to prevent groping
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