1982 in rail transport

Template:Short description Template:Additional citations Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1982.

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Events

January events

• January 13 – The 1982 Washington Metro train derailment involves an Orange Line train in Downtown Washington, D.C. in the United States and kills three people.
• January 26 – The Palace on Wheels luxury train begins to run on Indian Railways.
• January 27 – The Bouhalouane train crash in Algeria kills 131 people.

March events

• March 16 – An extension of the Namboku Subway Line in Sapporo, Japan, opens for service between Shin-Sapporo Station and Shiroishi Station.<ref name=":02">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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April events

• April 1 – most rail operations in New Zealand of the Government-owned railways were transferred from the New Zealand Railways Department to the New Zealand Railways Corporation.<ref>Template:Cite book </ref>
• April 6 – Opening of the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway in Norfolk, England, at Template:Convert probably the longest public Template:Convert gauge miniature railway in the world.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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May events

• The last freight trains passed over the Dumbarton Cut-off.<ref name=EmoryGustaitis95>Template:Cite book</ref>

June events

• June 23 – The Tōhoku Shinkansen line in Japan opens between Omiya (near Tokyo) and Morioka.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref>
• June 25 – Opening of the Furka (Base) Tunnel (Template:Convert) on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp Bahn in Switzerland between Oberwald and Realp.<ref>Template:Marshall-GuinnessRail</ref>Template:Page needed

July events

• July 28 – Fire destroys the Harrisonburg, Virginia, offices of the former Chesapeake Western Railway, which had been merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1954.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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August events

• August 2 – Helsinki Metro opens in Finland, the World's most northern metro.<ref>Metro website of the Finnish Tramway Society</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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September events

• September 18 – The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.
• September 19 – Final day of PCC streetcar operation in San Francisco before all routes began full time Muni Metro light rail services through the Market Street subway.<ref name="chron-1982sep20">Soiffer, Bill (September 20, 1982). "The Last Streetcar On Top of Market". San Francisco Chronicle, p. 2.</ref><ref name="perles-tours">Template:Cite book</ref>
• September 21 – Takabata Station in Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is opened.

October events

• October 23 – The first of 46 new 85-foot stainless steel electric multiple unit cars (1-46) built by Nippon-Sharyo of Nagoya, Japan are placed in service on the South Shore Commuter Line by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District. These cars replaced Insull-era equipment dating back to 1926.

November events

• November 15 – The Joetsu Shinkansen opens for service between Ōmiya and Niigata, Japan.<ref name=":0" />

December events

• December 29 – The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad merge to form the Seaboard System Railroad.

Unknown date events

• Robert Krebs succeeds Alan Furth as president of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.