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Events
January events
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January 15 -VIA Rail discontinues "Super Continental " service and shifts "The Canadian " from itsCanadian Pacific Railway to aCanadian National Railway route betweenToronto andVancouver , ending service to many cities and towns along the CP line, includingCalgary and Regina.February events
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February 4 - The lastEdmondson railway ticket s are issued for regular travel onBritish Rail , by the agent for Pembrey station inWales . [cite book|author=Farr, Michael|title=Thomas Edmondson and his tickets|date=1991|publisher=author|location=Andover|isbn=0-905033-13-2]May events
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May 28 - AnAlaska Railroad train derails 19tank car s near Dunbar. Approximately 170,000gallon s of diesel andjet fuel are spilled; the cleanup efforts last nearly threeweek s. [cite web|author=Combs, John|date=1997 -2005 |url=http://www.alaskarails.org/ARR-history.html|title=Alaska Railroad History|accessdate=2005-05-27]July events
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July 6 - Completion of the first MRT system inSingapore consisting of the North South Line and East West Line.August events
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August 18 -Gråkallbanen , part of theTrondheim Tramway inTrondheim ,Norway is reopened after the city council permanently closed the tramway in 1988. [cite book|last=Aspenberg|first=Nils Carl|title=På meterspor i Nidaros |year=1995|publisher=Baneforlaget|location=Oslo|pages=30]December events
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December 1 - Construction crews on theChannel Tunnel from bothEngland andFrance break through the last amount of rock separating the two tunnels, forming the first land link between the two countries.
*December 31 -Minsk Metro 'sAvtozavodskaya Line opens betweenTraktornyi Zavod and Frunzenskaya.Unknown date events
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David L. Gunn steps down from leadership of theNew York City Transit Authority .
*Robert J. Ritchie succeedsWilliam Stinson as president ofCanadian Pacific Railway .
* TheGateway Western Railway begins operations over formerChicago and Alton Railroad tracks between Kansas City andSt. Louis, Missouri .Deaths
References
* (February
2002 ), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, "Trains Magazine", p. 17.
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