2011 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that are currently scheduled to occur in 2011. Please be aware that the actual dates that these events occur on may differ substantially from what is shown here.
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[edit] Events
[edit] By month
[edit] January events
Main article: January 2011 in rail transport
- 10 January
– Regular through passenger service from Wuhan to Wanzhou over the complete new Yiwan Railway in China starts. The line features 288 km (179 mi) of bridges on a total length of 377 km (234 mi).[1]
[edit] February events
Main article: February 2011 in rail transport
- 19 February
– First public passenger train operates throughout between Caernarfon and Porthmadog Harbour over the restored Welsh Highland Railway. - 28 February
– Wabtec announces that it has acquired Brush Traction, the English-based locomotive builder and maintainer, for US$31 million.[2]
[edit] March events
Main article: March 2011 in rail transport
- 13 March
– Kyushu Shinkansen opens between Hakata of Fukuoka and Shin-Yatsushiro, with Osaka and Kagoshima direct bullet train starting.[citation needed] 
– Sassenheim railway station opens in the Netherlands.
[edit] April events
[edit] May events
- 1 May – Veendam railway station opens in the Netherlands.
- 1 May – Tide Light Rail begins service in Norfolk, Virginia.
[edit] June events
- – A-Train commuter rail service begins in northern Texas.[3]
- – Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway opens in China.
[edit] July events
Main article: July 2011 in rail transport
- 23 July – Wenzhou train collision: At least 39 people are killed when a China Railway High-speed train collides in rear with a preceding stationary train halted by a lightning strike, throwing two coaches off a viaduct close to Wenzhou in Zhejiang province.[4]
[edit] August events
- 7 August – Mid-Jordan Line and West Valley Line open in the Salt Lake City area.
- 19 August
– The first line of the Jerusalem Light Rail opens to passengers. It runs from Pisgat Ze'ev in the northeast, south along Road 60 to Jaffa Road (Rehov Yaffo). From there, it runs along Jaffa Road westward to the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, and continues to the southwest, crossing the Chords Bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava, along Herzl Boulevard to Beit HaKerem and terminates near Mount Herzl. - 31 August – 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 9 December 2006) and linking the Docklands area with domestic and international high-speed services on High Speed 1 and with the 2012 Olympic Games site.[5][6][7]
[edit] September events
27 September 
– Brookhaven Rail Terminal opened on Long Island, New York, a 28 acre facility for bulk commodities
[edit] October events
- 8 October
– The Circle MRT Line becomes fully operational. 
Banihal-Qazigund railway tunnel (Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel) a part of its Udhampur - Srinagar - Baramulla rail link project, opened in October 2011, India's longest and Asia's second longest railway tunnel and reduced the distance between Quazigund and Banihal to only 11 km. The 10.96 Km long railway tunnel, passes through the Pir Panjal Range of middle Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir. [8][9][10]
[edit] December events
- 28 December – – Hangzhou Metro opens in China
- – Hangyong Passenger Railway opens in China.
- – Utrecht Leidsche Rijn railway station opens in the Netherlands.
[edit] Unknown date events
- – Zhengzhou East Railway Station opens in Zhengzhou, China.
– Rail service begins to Warsaw Chopin Airport.- – Opening of Docklands Light Railway extension to Dagenham Dock in London, England.
- – Revenue service on JR East's new mainline between Hachinohe and Shin-Aomori in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, begins.[11][12]
– The 594 km (369 mi) long high speed railway between Ankara and Izmir opens.- – The 455 km (283 mi) long high speed railway between Ankara and Sivas opens.
– The aging Hitachi trains in Melbourne are completely phased out.
– The Asker Line completed from Sandvika to Lysaker.- – The double track section between Tønsberg and Barkåker on the Vestfold Line opens.[13]
- – The Gevingåsen Tunnel opens.[14]
[edit] Industry awards
[edit] North America
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- Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
- 2011 Railroader of the Year: Wick Moorman (NS)[15]
- 2011 Regional Railroad of the Year:
- 2011 Short Line Railroad of the Year:
[edit] United Kingdom
- 2011:
[edit] Deaths
- 15 January – Francesco di Majo, designer of the Pendolino (b. 1910).[16]
- 20 October – Roger Tallon, designer of the TGV (b. 1929).[17]
[edit] References
- ^ "最难修铁路”宜万铁路通车 ("World's most difficult to build railway" opens for service) (Chinese)
- ^ "Wabtec buys Brush Traction". Railway Gazette International. 28 February 2011. Archived from the original on 28 February 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5wqBrviqy. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ Peterson, Matt (20 June 2011). "A-train railway begins rolling, carrying commuters from Denton to Carrollton". The Dallas Morning News. http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/06/a-train-railway-begins-rolling.html. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
- ^ "China: Dozens die as bullet trains collide in Zhejiang". BBC News. 24 July 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14262276. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ^ "DLR on track for Stratford International as £67m contract awarded". http://developments.dlr.co.uk/extensions/stratford/details.asp?id=38.
- ^ Docklands Light Railway. "Stratford International extension approved". http://developments.dlr.co.uk/extensions/stratford/details.asp?id=28. Retrieved 25 October 2006.
- ^ "Major contract award signals start of work on DLR Stratford International Extension". http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/press-releases/press-releases-content.asp?prID=1038.
- ^ "India's longest railway tunnel unveiled in Jammu & Kashmir". The Times of India. october 14, 2011. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indias-longest-railway-tunnel-unveiled-in-Jammu-Kashmir/articleshow/10354892.cms. Retrieved october 14, 2011.
- ^ http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2011/Mar/31/banihal-qazigund-railway-tunnel-to-be-complete-by-december-42.asp
- ^ "India's longest railway tunnel unveiled in Jammu & Kashmir". The Times Of India. 14 October 2011. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indias-longest-railway-tunnel-thrown-open-in-JK/articleshow/10354892.cms.
- ^ "Shinkansen prototype unveiled". The Yomiuri Shimbun. 2005. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050625wo71.htm. Retrieved 28 June 2005.[dead link]
- ^ "New bullet train could be world's fastest". The Japan Times Online. 25 June 2005. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050625a1.htm. Retrieved 28 June 2005.
- ^ "Vestfoldbanen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian National Rail Administration. http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/Prosjekter/Prosjekter/Dette-er-Vestfoldbanen/. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
- ^ "Dette er prosjektet i Gevingåsen" (in Norwegian). Norwegian National Rail Administration. http://www.jernbaneverket.no/no/Prosjekter/Prosjekter/Gevingasen-tunnel/Bakgrunn-og-publikasjoner/Planlegger-for-byggestart-i-Gevingasen/. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
- ^ "Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman named Railway Age Railroader of the Year". Railway Age. 9 December 2010. http://www.railwayage.com/breaking-news/norfolk-southern-ceo-wick-moorman-named-railway-age-railroader-of-the-year.html. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ "Francesco di Majo". The Times: p. 47. 23 February 2011.
- ^ "L'homme du TGV et pionnier du design industriel, Roger Tallon, est mort". Le Monde. 2011-10-20. http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2011/10/20/roger-tallon-designer-du-tgv-et-pionnier-du-design-industriel-s-en-va_1591621_3382.html. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
