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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Sidebar". This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2017.
Events
January
- Template:Flagicon January 1 – Phase I of New York City's Second Avenue Subway is opened for revenue service after almost a century of planning.[1]
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon January 1–18 – First scheduled through railborne intermodal container freight service from Yiwu (China) to London via the New Eurasian Land Bridge and Channel Tunnel.[2]
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon January 10 – Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway inaugurated throughout.[3][4][5]
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon January 11 – Sale of English train operating company c2c by National Express to Trenitalia is agreed.[6]
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon January 14 – A Serbian Railways train decorated with Serbian propaganda intended to run from Belgrade to North Mitrovica is turned back at Raška by order of the Serbian Prime Minister, amidst claims that the authorities in Kosovo would prevent it from crossing their border.[7]
- Template:Flagicon January 26 – Opening of Harbin Metro Line 3.
February
- Template:Flagicon February 23 – High Speed 2 phase one gets parliamentary approval in the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017, enabling construction to start in 2017.[8]
- February 24
- Template:Flagicon – The R Line and H Line extensions open as part of the FasTracks project in Denver, Colorado.[9]
- Template:Flagicon – withdrawal of SL X10 trainsets.
- Template:Flagicon February 26 – Saudi Railway Company opens the SAR Riyadh-Qurayyat Line to passengers from King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, to the Al-Qassim Region in Saudi Arabia.[10]
March
- Template:Flagicon March 2 – Taoyuan International Airport MRT opened.
- Template:Flagicon March 25 – The Warm Springs station opens as part of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.[11]
- Template:Flagicon – Tokyo Metro (former Eidan Electric Railway) phases out 01 series. Some trains are preserved or sent to Kumamoto Electric Railway.
April
- Template:Flagicon April 3 – 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing.
- Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon April 28 – The Strasbourg tramway is extended over a new bridge across the Rhine to Kehl.[12]
May
- Template:Flagicon May 12 – Opening of Detroit's QLine.[13]
- Template:Flagicon May 19 – End of Slam-door era in the UK. The British Rail Class 121 is withdrawn from Aylesbury to Princes Risborough line after 57 years of service.
- Template:Flagicon May 22 – Opening of the MBTA Commuter Rail's Boston Landing station on the Framingham/Worcester Line in Massachusetts.[14]
- Template:Flagicon May 26
- Template:Flagicon May 31 – Official opening of Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, Script error: No such module "convert". of standard gauge track built with Chinese finance and expertise, cutting the Mombasa–Nairobi passenger journey time to 4½ hours, compared to 12 hours on the previous line.[15]
June
- Template:Flagicon June 16 – Harbin Metro Line 3 opened one infill station.
- Template:Flagicon June 18 – Tuas West extension, a Script error: No such module "convert". extension of the East–West MRT line in Singapore, opens.[16]
- Template:Flagicon June 20 – June 2017 Brussels attack.
- Template:Flagicon June 29 – Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit begins preview service.[17]
July
- Template:Flagicon July 2 – Completion of LGV Sud Europe Atlantique from Tours to Bordeaux[18] and of LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire from Le Mans to Rennes[19] with consequent major reshaping of Transport express régional services.[12]
- Template:Flagicon July 10 – Opening of Stockholm City Line.[20]
- Template:Flagicon July 17 – Full opening of MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line, from Semantan to Kajang. This includes Malaysia's second subway line, after the Kelana Jaya Line.[21][22][23]
August
- Template:Flagicon August 20 – South Western franchise (including Island Line) passenger train operating company franchise in England, previously operated by South West Trains,[24] passes to South Western Railway, a joint venture between FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation of Hong Kong (30%).[25]
- Template:Flagicon August 23 – Auraiya train derailment.
- Template:Flagicon August 25 – Opening of Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) commuter system in the North Bay area of San Francisco between northern Santa Rosa and downtown San Rafael, California.[26]
September
- Template:Flagicon September 15 – Parsons Green bombing.
- Template:Flagicon September 21 – Granada Metro opens to passenger service.[27]
- Template:Flagicon September 23 – The grand opening of the Aarhus Letbane is cancelled several hours prior to the event due to missing security clearances from the Danish Transport Authority.[28]
- Template:Flagicon September 26 – Kaohsiung Circular Line (First Section) completed.
October
- Template:Flagicon October 21 – Downtown MRT line Phase 3 opened.
November
- Template:Flagicon November 1 – Russian Railway Museum is opened to the public adjacent to Baltiysky railway station in Saint Petersburg.
- Template:Flagicon November 18 – Länsimetro extension to Helsinki Metro is opened.
- Template:Flagicon November 28 – First section (30 km) of Hyderabad Metro inaugurated.
December
- Template:Flagicon December 4 – After being suspended for 4 years since 2013 due to technical problems, the Melaka Monorail service resumes.[29]
- Template:Flagicon December 10 – Opening of Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway.[12] Berlin-Munich corridor is completed.
- Template:Flagicon December 14 – Perpignan crash: A local train crashes into a school bus at a level crossing near Millas in the arrondissement of Perpignan in France, killing four pupils on the bus.[30]
- Template:Flagicon December 15 – Stoosbahn, the world's steepest mass transit funicular, officially opens, connecting Schlattli with Stoos.[31]
- Template:Flagicon December 17 – Opening of the Toronto subway Line 1 Yonge–University extension to Vaughan, Ontario.
- Template:Flagicon December 18 – 2017 Washington train derailment: Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derails near DuPont, Washington, on its inaugural southbound run on the Point Defiance Bypass with three fatalities.
- Template:Flagicon December 26 – Soekarno–Hatta Airport Rail Link in Jakarta started operations.[32]
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- Template:Flagicon – Extension of DSB electrification to Esbjerg was expected to open.[12]
- Template:Flagicon – The new Tithorea–Leianokladi line, replacing the route via Bralos was expected to open.[12]
- Template:Flagicon – China re-launches 350 km/h train operations after 6 year break, now with standard-class Fuxing trainsets.
Deaths
- Template:Flagicon August 28 – Steven Marshall, chief executive of Railtrack (born 1957).[33]
- Template:Flagicon December 16 – E. Hunter Harrison, president of Illinois Central Railroad 1993-1998, president of Canadian National Railway 2003-2009, president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway 2012-2017 and CEO of CSX Transportation in 2017 (born 1944).[34]
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