This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2010.
| This article needs to be updated. (March 2011) |
By month
April events
April 17 – The Circle MRT line Stage 1 and 2 were to be ready for service using the 3 car Alstom train.
November Events
November 1 - Construction of phase 2 in building the Seoul–Busan high-speed line is completed, allowing passengers to travel between the two cities in under 2½ hours. The project cost an estimated ₩7 945 billion, with an extra 35,000 passengers per day projected to use this service.[25][26]
mid-November - Arenaways, the first open-access railway operator in Italy, begins non-stop passenger operations between Milan and Turin, competing with national monopoly operator Trenitalia using TRAXX locomotives leased from Alpha Trains.[27][28][29][30]
Unknown date events
– Train travel in Britain during 2010 attained its highest peacetime level since the 1920s, according to the Association of Train Operating Companies. The number of train journeys reached 1.3bn, a figure not seen since 1928. The proportion of people using the train has decreased substantially since then, while the amount of usable rail track has more than halved.[32]
February 15 – The Halle train collision in which a National Railway Company of Belgium local train collides with an inter-city service at Buizingen, killing 19, due to a signal passed at danger and absence of a transmission balise-locomotive system.[33]
April 12 – The Merano train derailment happens when a train derails between Latsch and Kastelbell, near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28.
April 21 – The Pretoria runaway in which a train of carriages runs away for twelve miles (19 km) from Centurion Station and derails at Pretoria, South Africa, killing three and seriously injuring seven.
May 23 – The Jiangxi train derailment in which a train travelling from Shanghai to Guilin in Jiangxi, China derails, killing at least 19 people.
May 28 – The Gyaneshwari Express derailment in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India. It is disputed as to whether sabotage or a bomb caused damage to the track, which in turn leads to a train derailment before an oncoming goods train hit the loose carriages killing at least 141 passengers.
June 6 – The Falls of Cruachan derailment occurs on the West Highland Line in Scotland, when a passenger train travelling between Glasgow and Oban derails after a suspected landslide.
June 21 – The Yanga train derailment occurs when a train travelling between Brazzaville and Pointe Noire in the Republic of the Congo is derailed and plunges into a ravine. The death toll will have risen to 76 people and injuries to 745 by June 23.
June 23 – Thirteen die in the Castelldefels train accident at a level crossing in Castelldefels near Barcelona.
June 28 – Ústí nad Labem derailment at Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. The driver is killed and eleven passengers injured.
Japan
- Awards presented by the Japan Railfan Club
North America
- 2010 E. H. Harriman Awards
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- Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
- March 7 – Mac Sebree, well-known American rail-transport writer and publisher (b. 1932).
- June 23 – Michael Cobb, British railway historian, dies (b. 1916).
- August 20 – Charles S. Roberts, American railroad historian, dies (b. 1930).
"개요 및 연혁" [Overview and History]. seoulmetro.co.kr (in Korean). Archived from the original on 5 February 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024. Connor, J. E. (July 2010). "East London Line Reopens". London Railway Record (64): 102–8.
"京成電鉄「成田スカイアクセス」開業にともない7月17日にダイヤ改正を実施" [Timetable Revisions to take place on Keisei Railway on 17 July for Opening of the Narita Airport Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2024.