1980
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| Timelines: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
| Births: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
| Deaths: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
| Establishments: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
| Disestablishments: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
| Introductions: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
| Accidents: | 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 |
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[edit] By month
[edit] January
- January 23 – Western Pacific Railroad president R. G. "Mike" Flannery announces that an agreement has been reached for the railroad to be controlled by Union Pacific Railroad.[1]
- January 29 – Milwaukee Road discontinues all service on the Pacific Extension west of Miles City, Montana.[2]
[edit] April
[edit] May
- May – The 150th anniversary of the Rainhill Trials is commemorated with a restaging of the event using replica locomotives.
[edit] August
- August 3 – Amtrak inaugurates the Lake Cities passenger train service between Chicago, Toledo and Detroit to replace the St. Clair.
- August 10 – Amtrak inaugurates the Prairie Marksman passenger train service between Chicago and Peoria.
[edit] October
- October 1 – Amtrak inaugurates the Hoosier State passenger train service between Chicago and Indianapolis.
- October 31 – British Rail discontinues the Night Ferry passenger train service between London and Dover.
- October – The new north-south line from Tarcoola, South Australia, (until then a siding on the Trans-Australian Railway) to Alice Springs, Northern Territory, is opened.
[edit] November
- November 20 – SNCF completes construction on the LGV Sud-Est connecting Paris and Lyon.
- November 30 – Amtrak replaces the "Pleasure Dome" and "Hi-Level" cars on the Southwest Limited with Superliner cars.
[edit] December
- December 12 – MTR in Hong Kong extends the Kwun Tong line to Central station.
[edit] Unknown date
- British Rail 0-6-0ST number 8846 is donated to the National Railway Museum.
- New Zealand Railways begins a rebuild program to refurbish ten DB class diesel-electric locomotives into DBR class locomotives.
- Henschel builds the Di 4 class diesel-electric locomotives for Norges Statsbaner.
- GNR Class J13 8846, the first steam locomotive to be privately preserved from British Railways, is donated to the National Railway Museum in York.
- British Rail replaces the Class 27 multiple units with single Class 47/7s at one end of a rake of Mark 3 carriages and a DBSO.
- JR Hokkaido introduces the Lilac passenger train service between Sapporo and Asahikawa.
- New Jersey Transit inaugurates the Pony Express passenger train service between Hoboken, New Jersey and Monmouth Park Racetrack.
- Oslo Sentralstasjon is opened in Norway
[edit] References
- ↑ Western Pacific History. Feather River Rail Society/Western Pacific Railroad Historical Society (2002). Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
- ↑ This month in railroad history - January. Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (2006-01-15). Retrieved on 2008-01-28.
