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2017 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2017.

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January events

  • January 1 – Phase I of New York City's Second Avenue Subway is opened for revenue service after almost a century of planning.
  • January 1–January 18 – First scheduled through railborne intermodal container freight service from Yiwu (China) to London via the New Eurasian Land Bridge and Channel Tunnel.
  • January 10 – Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway inaugurated throughout.
  • January 11 – Sale of English train operating company c2c by National Express to Trenitalia is agreed.
  • 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.

    • February events

  • February 24 – Expected opening of R Line and H Line extension in Denver, Colorado, part of the FasTracks project.

    • April events

  • April – Expected extension of Strasbourg tramway over a new bridge across the Rhine to Kehl.

    • May events

  • May – Expected extension of DSB railway electrification system to Esbjerg.
  • May – Expected opening of Aarhus Letbane first stage.

    • June events

  • June – Expected opening of new Tithorea–Leianokladi line, replacing the route via Bralos.

    • July events

  • July 2 – Expected completion of LGV Sud Europe Atlantique from Tours to Bordeaux and of LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire from Le Mans to Rennes with consequent major reshaping of Transport express régional services.
  • July 10 - Expected opening of Stockholm City Line.
  • July 27 - South Western (including Island Line) train operating company franchise in England, previously operated by Stagecoach Group, expires.

    • October events

  • October – Expected completion of the first new railway in Croatia in 50 years, from Gradec to Sveti Ivan Žabno.
  • October 31 – West midlands train operating company franchise in England, previously operated by London Midland, expires.

    • December events

  • December 8 – Expected opening of Schnellfahrstrecke Nürnberg–Erfurt.
  • December – Expected introduction of through Eurostar passenger services between London (St Pancras International) and Amsterdam (Centraal).

    • Unknown date events

  • – Tuas West extension, a 7.5-kilometre (4.7 mi) extension of the East West MRT Line in Singapore, scheduled to open.
  • – Completion of the Downtown MRT Line Stage 2 (Bugis–Bukit Panjang) expected.
  • – Downtown MRT Line Phrase 3 scheduled to open.
  • – Expected opening of the first phase of Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit in Sonoma County, California, between San Rafael and Santa Rosa.
  • – Expected opening of the Warm Springs station on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
  • – Expected opening of the Berryessa segment of the Silicon Valley BART extension.
  • – Expected opening of Detroit's QLINE.
  • – Expected opening of the FasTracks commuter rail G Line in Denver, Colorado.
  • – Expected opening of Phase 1 (South Florida) portion of Brightline higher-speed rail in Florida.

    • References

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