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This article lists events related to rail transport that are currently scheduled to occur in 2010. Please be aware that the actual dates that these events occur on may differ substantially from what is shown here.
Events
June events
- The newly extended
East London Railway is expected to begin service between West Croydon, Crystal Palace and
Dalston Junction.[1]
Unknown date events
- - Opening of Docklands Light Railway extension from Canning
Town to the new Stratford International station, taking over the
North London Line infrastructure (which closed on December 9 2006) and linking the Docklands area with domestic and international
high-speed services on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and with the
2012 Olympic Games site.[2][3][4]
- The English Electric DM class of Tranz Metro will be replaced by
newer "electric carriages".
- The government of
Gauteng Province, South Africa, expects to complete a new
rail connection between Johannesburg, Tschwane and
Johannesburg International Airport before the opening of the
Football World Cup series.[5]
- The Korea Train Express route is expected to shift to a dedicated high
speed train right-of-way, which will reduce travel time between
Seoul and Busan from 160 minutes to
116 minutes.
- Work is expected to be completed on the Iron Silk Road high speed railway line
connecting China to mainland Europe.[6]
- The extension of the Tōhoku Shinkansen in Japan from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori is expected to open.
- New high speed rail service between Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv is scheduled to begin operations.[7]- - The second maglev train route in
China is expected to open between Shanghai
and Hangzhou.[8]
- Bremen S-Bahn is expected to be operational by 2010.
- Circle MRT Line would be fully operational now. With Phrase 3, 4 and 5 being completed.
- The railway tunnel,
Marmaray under Turkey's Bosphorus strait is expected to open for service.
- Work on converting Paris Métro Line 1 to fully driverless automated operations is expected to be completed.[9]
References
- ^ "TfL awards contract to build new East London Railway", Infrasite.net, 2006-10-23. Retrieved on 2006-11-07.
- ^ DLR on track for Stratford International as £67m contract awarded.
- ^ Docklands Light Railway. Stratford International extension approved. Retrieved on 2006-10-25.
- ^ Major contract award signals start of work on DLR Stratford International Extension.
- ^ RailStaff (August 2 2005), Johannesburg’s 80 KM Airport Link to be ready for Football World Cup. Retrieved August 4 2005.
- ^ Page, Jeremy; The Australian (December 6 2005), Beijing backs plan for silk railroad link to Europe. Retrieved December 5 2005.
- ^ Lefkovits, Etgar; Jerusalem Post (February 8 2006), Jerusalem-TA high-speed railway to be online in 2010. Retrieved February 8 2006.
- ^ Xinhua (March 6 2006), Maglev railway to link Hangzhou, Shanghai. Retrieved March 6 2006.
- ^ "New section of Metro Line 14 opened", InfraSite.net, 2007-07-02. Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
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