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January 2005 in rail transport

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in January 2005.

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Events

January 1
  • – ÖBB, the national railway of Austria, is reorganized into ÖBB-Holding AG, a holding company to manage subsidiaries ÖBB-Dienstleistungs GmbH, ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG (for passenger train operations) and Rail Cargo Austria AG (for freight train operations).
    • January 3
  • – Kansas City Southern names Arthur Shoener, formerly a vice president at Union Pacific Railroad, as the new CEO of the holding company's Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas Mexican Railway divisions. [1]
    • January 4
  • – Bombardier receives a contract from SNCF for 350 million euros to build 100 new regional trainsets.
    • January 6
  • – Graniteville train disaster – A Norfolk Southern train carrying a few carloads of hazardous materials (including chlorine gas) collides with a parked train in Graniteville, South Carolina, causing 9 deaths and over 250 injuries. [2]
    • January 7
  • – A passenger train and freight train collide head-on in Crevalcore, in northern Italy (near Bologna), on the single-track mainline between Bologna and Verona. [3]
    • January 12
  • – General Motors announces that it has agreed to sell its Electro-Motive Division to a partnership led by Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners. [4]
  • – Five cars of a CN freight train derail in Fort St. John, Manitoba (a suburb of Winnipeg), Canada; as one of the cars was carrying propane, the area is evacuated. The tank car remains upright and intact, so local residents are allowed to return fairly quickly. [5]
    • January 17
  • – Two Bangkok Metro trains collide, injuring nearly 200 people. [6], [7]
    • January 18
  • – A station at the Milwaukee Airport opens on Amtrak's Hiawatha service. [8], [9]
    • January 24
  • – Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway introduces a new corporate logo that replaces the railroad's verbose name with BNSF Railway. [10]
    • January 26
  • – Glendale train crash – In what police initially call a suicide attempt, a Metrolink train in Glendale, California, (a suburb of Los Angeles) hits a car parked on a grade crossing and then derails into another Metrolink train and a parked Union Pacific Railroad locomotive; resulting in 11 fatalities and 200 injuries. [11], [12], [13]
    • January 29
  • – Singapore's third LRT Line, Punggol LRT Line opened.
  • – Meitetsu Airport Line, open between Tokoname and Centrair route, with Gifu-Meitetsu Nagoya and Centrair route of direct limited express to start.
    • January 31
  • – Regular Metrolink passenger service is restored through Glendale, California, the scene of the previous week's Glendale train crash. [14]

    • Deaths

  • January 23 – John H. Kuehl, editor of Private Varnish magazine, passenger car historian and photographer (born 1938).

    • References

    January 2005 in rail transport Wikipedia
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