1997 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1997.
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Events
January events
- January 6 - Full freight and passenger service is restored through the Channel Tunnel, just short of two months after a devastating fire.
April events
- April 25 - Construction begins on Phase II of Manchester Metrolink in Manchester, England.
May events
- May 10 - Amtrak ceases operations of the Chicago-Los Angeles Desert Wind passenger train.
- May 11 - The New York and Atlantic Railway takes over operations of the Long Island Rail Road's freight services.
- May - Kansas City Southern acquires the Gateway Western Railway and begins operating it as a subsidiary railroad.
September events
- September 3 - Union Pacific Railroad and the United States Federal Railroad Administration introduce the Safety Assurance Compliance Process. (UP)
- September 19 - In the Southall rail crash, the 1032 Great Western Intercity passenger train from Swansea to London Paddington, operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator passes a red signal (SPAD) and collides with a freight train leaving its depot, shortly before 1320 local time.
- September 20 - RaiLink Southern Ontario begins operations on the former Canadian National Railway Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford.
December events
- December - Illinois RailNet is formed.
Unknown date events
- The Ballard Terminal Railroad is formed to handle freight traffic around Ballard, Seattle, Washington.
- The Beijing-Kowloon Through Train and the Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train starts services.
Deaths
References
- Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (August 16 2005), Significant dates in Canadian railway history. Retrieved September 19 2005.
- (February 2002), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, Trains Magazine, p. 17.
- Skeats, William J. (April/May/June 2005), "The New York & Atlantic Railway", The Railroad Press (65), p. 32.
- Union Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad Chronological History. Retrieved September 3 2005
