1982 in rail transport explained

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 16 - An extension of the Namboku Subway Line in Sapporo, Japan, opens for service between Shin-Sapporo Station and Shiroishi Station.^[1]

April 1 - A major railroad line service in New Zealand, officially operation transferred to New Zealand Railways Corporation from New Zealand Railways Department.
April 6 – Opening of the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway in Norfolk, England, at 6.5km (04miles) probably the longest public NaNsigfig=3NaNsigfig=3 gauge miniature railway in the world.^[2]

June 23 – The Tōhoku Shinkansen line in Japan opens between Omiya (near Tokyo) and Morioka.^[4]
June 25 – Opening of the Furka (Base) Tunnel (15.4km (09.6miles)) on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp Bahn in Switzerland between Oberwald and Realp.

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.^[5]

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.^[8] ^[9]
September 21 - Takabata Station in Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is opened.

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 15 – The Joetsu Shinkansen opens for service between Ōmiya and Niigata, Japan.

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

Web site: 地下鉄（高速電車）の概要 . Overview of the subway (high-speed train) . https://web.archive.org/web/20240119102731/https://www.city.sapporo.jp/st/subway/gaiyo/gaiyo.html . 19 January 2024 . 6 February 2024 . city.sapporo.jp . ja.
Web site: The Wells & Walsingham Light Railway. 2007-07-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20070705090924/http://www.wellswalsinghamrailway.co.uk/. 5 July 2007 . live.
Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=sJwh6DQqojUC&pg=PA48 . San Francisco Bay Shoreline Guide . Dumbarton Bridge & Piers to Moffett Field . 48 . Emory, Jerry . Gustaitis, Rasa . 1995 . University of California Press . Berkeley, California . 0-520-08878-6 . 15 March 2016.
Taniguchi . Mamoru . 1993 . The Japanese Shinkansen . . 19 . 3/4 . 216 . JSTOR.
Web site: Elswick, Samuel T.. Madson, Tony. James Madison University Libraries. 1998. Chesapeake Western Railroad Company records. 2005-07-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20050204062010/http://www.lib.jmu.edu/special/cwrr.html. 2005-02-04. dead.
http://www.raitio.org/metro/ Metro website of the Finnish Tramway Society
Web site: UrbanRail — Helsinki . 2010-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100612090744/http://urbanrail.net/eu/hel/helsinki.htm . 2010-06-12 . dead .
Soiffer, Bill (September 20, 1982). "The Last Streetcar On Top of Market". San Francisco Chronicle, p. 2.
Book: Perles, Anthony . Tours of Discovery: A San Francisco Muni Album . 1984 . . 0-916374-60-2 . 126, 136.