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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2013.

Events

January

• 18 January – Brand new V250-high speed EMU's taken out of Fyra-service definitely due to poor quality.
• 28 January – New Orleans Regional Transit Authority Loyola Avenue Streetcar Line opened.

February

• 10 February – opening of Milan Metro Line 5.
• 11 February – Manchester Metrolink light rail system East Manchester Line opened to Droylsden.
• 24 February – The platforms at Togoshi-kōen Station, on the Tokyu Oimachi Line in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, are extended from three car lengths to five.

March

• 16 March – Shibuya Station of the Tokyu Toyoko Line move to an underground station from ground station, with direct commuter express trains beginning at Motomachi-Chūkagai of Yokohama heading to Hanno of the Seibu Ikebukuro Line or Kawagoeshi of the Tobu Tojo Line, via the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line. Tokyu Toyoko Line ends serving Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line trains. However, Hibiya Line trains are still able to run more than 80 kilometres (50 mi) for one trip during through-train services.
• 23 March – Paris Métro Line 4 is extended from Porte d'Orléans to Mairie de Montrouge.

April

• 14 April – Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail Green Line extends service west from downtown Salt Lake City to the Salt Lake City International Airport.
• 26 April
  • – The Yongin Everline driverless metro opens for service in southern Seoul.
  • – RTD's W-Line light rail corridor extends service west from Denver Union Station to Golden. This is the first FasTracks corridor to be completed.

May

• 10 May – Norfolk Southern Railway announces the appointment of James A. Squires to become the railroad's new president effective 1 June.
• 26 May – National Express' Essex Thameside franchise, c2c expires; extended through 2014.
• 27 May – CapeFLYER summer weekend service from Boston, Massachusetts to Cape Cod begun.

July

• 1 July – Opening of Hangzhou–Ningbo High-Speed Railway and Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway.
• 6 July – Lac-Mégantic derailment: 47 people are killed in explosions and fire after an unattended train carrying Bakken formation crude oil runs away and derails in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. It becomes the deadliest rail accident in Canadian history since 1864.
• 24 July – Santiago de Compostela derailment: 79 people are killed when an Alvia train derails at excessive speed on a curve in Galicia (Spain).

August

• 18 August – Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail Blue Line extends service further south from Sandy to Draper.

September

• 15 September – Xi'an Metro Line 1 opened.
• 26 September – Harbin Metro Line 1 opened.

October

• 15 October – The Kyushu Railway Company (Japan Railways Group) launches the 'Seven Stars in Kyushu' luxury sleeping car excursion train from Hakata Station with dedicated diesel locomotive haulage.
• 29 October – Completion of Marmaray suburban rail project in Istanbul with official opening of its Marmaray Tunnel under the Bosphorus, the first standard gauge rail connection between Europe and Asia.

November

• 3 November – Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern funicular opens.

December

• 8 December – Utah Transit Authority's S Line (formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar) opens with service from South Salt Lake to the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.
• 22 December – Downtown MRT line Phase 1 scheduled to open.
• 28 December – Opening of high speed Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway in southern China, fully completing the Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen High-Speed Railway.
• 28 December – Wuhan Metro Line 4 and Suzhou Metro Line 2, including Zhengzhou Metro has been opened.
• 29 December – Shanghai Metro Lines 12 and 16 opened.

Deaths

• 28 May – Isabel Benham, American railroad financial expert, dies (b. 1909).
• 23 August – Richard J. Corman, founder and owner of R.J. Corman Railroad Group, dies (b. 1955).

Industry awards

Japan

Awards presented by the Japan Railfan Club

• 2013 Blue Ribbon Award: Tokyo Metro 1000 series EMU

References

1. "Capital Projects". New Orleans Regional Transit Authority. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
2. Kirby, Dean (4 December 2012). "Opening of Metrolink tram service to Droylsden delayed until February 2013". Manchester Evening News. Chadderton, England. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
3. 東急大井町線戸越公園駅でのドアカット解消 [Selective door-opening eliminated at Togoshi-kōen Station on Tokyu Oimachi Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
4. 安井功 (15 March 2013). "さよなら東横線渋谷駅…大改造計画が始動" [Goodbye Tōyoko Line Shibuya Station ... Major remodeling plan started]. MSN Sankei News. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
5. "東急東横線・東京メトロ日比谷線の相互直通運転が終了" [Through operation between the Tokyu Tōyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line ends]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 16 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
6. à 04h10, Par Le 23 mars 2013 (23 March 2013). "La ligne 4 du métro arrive à Montrouge". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 January 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
7. "Airport TRAX Line to Open April 14". Utah Transit Authority. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
8. "YONGIN EVERLINE LRT: 5TH FULLY AUTOMATED METRO LINE IN SOUTH KOREA". UITP. 29 April 2013.
9. "RTD celebrates the successful grand opening of the West Rail Line" (PDF). Denver: RTD. 9 April 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
10. Norfolk Southern Corporation (10 May 2013). "Norfolk Southern Names Six to Senior Management Positions" (Press release). Retrieved 4 March 2014.
11. Cassidy, Patrick (13 December 2012). "Weekend passenger rail service to run seasonally between Cape and Boston". The Standard-Times. New Bedford, Massachusetts. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
12. "New high-speed railways open to promote intercity development". Xinhua. 1 July 2013. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
13. Van Eyck, Zack (14 March 1999). "Bus routes will change when TRAX arrives". Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
14. "西安地铁一号线15日正式通车试运营". 14 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
15. "ななつ星in九州"用編成" ["Seven Stars in Kyushu" trainset]. Japan Railfan Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 53, no. 631. Japan: Koyusha. November 2013. pp. 44–45.
16. "Marmaray tüneli resmen açıldı" [Marmary Tunnel officially opened]. bbc.com/turkce (in Turkish). 29 October 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
17. "8783.03 Standseilbahn Kraftwerk Linth-Limmern Tierfehd - Maschinenkaverne". Seilbahndatenbank (in German). Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
18. Vo-Duc, Viviane (5 September 2013). "New streetcar S-line set to open Dec. 8 in Sugar House". Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret Digital Media. Archived from the original on 17 September 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
19. "Xiamen-Shenzhen HSR expected to open to traffic by end of 2013". What's on Xiamen. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
20. 東京地下鉄1000系「ブルーリボン賞」受賞記念式典開催 ["Blue Ribbon Award" presentation ceremony held for Tokyo Metro 1000 series]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 42, no. 356. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. December 2013. p. 60.

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