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| Contents |
| Events |
| By month |
| February events |
| April events |
| November events |
| December events |
| Unknown date events |
| References |
Events
By month
February events
★ February – Opening of Docklands Light Railway London City Airport branch extension under the River Thames to Woolwich Arsenal.[1]
April events
★ April - Official completion of Welsh Highland Railway restoration throughout between Caernarfon and Porthmadog in North Wales.[2]
November events
★ November - Scheduled opening of the Canada Line rapid transit line in Vancouver, British Columbia.
December events
★ December - Construction to restore the mainline of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad from Gold Hill to Carson City, Nevada is expected to be completed.[3]
★ December 31 - The Chicago Transit Authority's Brown Line capacity expansion project is scheduled to be completed.[4]
Unknown date events
★ - High speed railway service between Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa, is expected to open.
★ - High speed railway service between Zhengzhou and Xi'an, China, is expected to open.[5]
★ - The Dubai Metro is scheduled to open.
★ - The Kowloon Southern Link, an extension of the KCRC West Rail Line in Hong Kong is expected to be completed and opened.[6]
★ - Sound Transit Central Link light rail line in Seattle, Washington is scheduled to open.
★ - Indian Railways expects to complete construction on the world's highest railway bridge crossing the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir.[7]
★ - East West MRT Line extension of additional two stations from Boon Lay. Trains by then will no longer terminate at Boon Lay Station instead Pionner Station (Station name is unconfirmed and may change accordingly). For more infomation and Reference.
★ - 306 km long high speed railway between Ankara and Konya is expected to open.
References
1. Mayor launches tunnelling of DLR Woolwich Arsenal Extension
2. Project Rheilffordd Eryri
3. Anderson, Tim; Reno Gazette-Journal (January 4 2006), ''V&T Railroad project marks milestone''. Retrieved January 6 2006.
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5. People's Daily Online (September 26 2005), ''China builds 200-kph passenger railway''. Retrieved September 27 2005.
6. KCRC New Projects, ''KCRC New Projects - Kowloon Southern Link''. Retrieved March 20 2006.
7. World's Highest Railway Bridge to Come in Jammu and Kashmir UNI (reprinted by DaijiWorld)
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