2000 in rail transport - Definition and Overview

This article will list events related to rail transport that occurred in 2000.

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 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_dans_les_chemins_de_fer), the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article.