1987 in rail transport

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1986, 1987, 1988

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1987.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January events 1.2 February events 1.3 April events 1.4 July events 1.5 October events 1.6 Unknown date events 2 Deaths 3 References

Events

January events

• January 4 - Amtrak and Conrail trains collide in Maryland.

February events

• February 2 - The Irish national transport operator Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE) is split up into subsidiaries, with Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) taking responsibility for the Irish railway network in the Republic of Ireland.

April events

• April 1 - The Japanese National Railways (JNR) are divided and privatized. The Japan Railway companies succeeded the former JNR.
• April 4 - The Soo Line railroad announces the sale of its Lake States Transportation Division to private investors, forming the new Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation.

July events

• July 13 - Union Pacific Railroad files with the Interstate Commerce Commission to acquire the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.
• July 19 - New short line railroad Red River Valley and Western Railroad begins operations over 667 miles (1,073.4 km) of former BN tracks in North Dakota.
• July 25 - Indian Railways installs its first solid state interlocking at Srirangam, India.
• July 31 - Queen Elizabeth II presides over the opening ceremonies of the Docklands Light Railway in London, England.

October events

• October 11 - Soo Line Railroad sells 2,002 miles (3,222 km) of track to the newly formed Wisconsin Central.

Unknown date events

• The United States Congress divests government ownership of Conrail in the largest initial public stock offering (IPO) to date.
• The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway are merged into CSX Transportation.
• Line One (the Red line) of Cairo Metro opens.
• Both San Jose and Sacramento, California open the first lines of their new regional light rail systems.
• A passenger express from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore derailed at high speed near Johor Bahru, Malaysia, after bolts holding the underframe-mounted air conditioning generator come off causing it to fall off and catapult the particular coach and the ones behind it off the rails. 12 people are killed in the worst accident in KTM's history.

Deaths

References

• Indian Railways Fan Club, IR History: Part - V (1970-1995). Retrieved July 22 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History: July. Retrieved July 18 2005.
• Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2005), This Month in Railroad History - October. Retrieved October 11 2005.
• Strack, Don (October 14 2004), Union Pacific Corporate History. Retrieved July 12 2005.