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EVENTS

January events

January 6 - Full freight and passenger service is restored through the Channel Tunnel , just short of two months after a devastating fire.

March events

2006 .

March 22 - Japan 's Akita Shinkansen begins operating over the Morioka - Akita section using Tazawako Line and Ōu Main Line tracks.

April events

April 25 - Construction begins on Phase II of Manchester Metrolink in Manchester , England .

May events

May 10 - Amtrak ceases operations of the Chicago - Los Angeles '' Desert Wind '' Passenger Train .

May 11 - The New York And Atlantic Railway takes over operations of the Long Island Rail Road 's freight services.

May - Kansas City Southern acquires the Gateway Western Railway and begins operating it as a subsidiary railroad.

September events

September 3 - Union Pacific Railroad and the United States Federal Railroad Administration introduce the Safety Assurance Compliance Process . (UP)

September 19 - In the Southall Rail Crash , the 1032 Great Western Intercity Passenger Train from Swansea to London Paddington , operating with a defective Automatic Warning System indicator passes a red signal ( SPAD ) and collides with a freight train leaving its depot, shortly before 1320 local time.

Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford .

December events

December - Illinois RailNet is formed.

Unknown date events

The Ballard Terminal Railroad is formed to handle freight traffic around Ballard, Seattle, Washington .

The Beijing - Kowloon Through Train and the Shanghai - Kowloon Through Train starts services.

DEATHS

REFERENCES

Colin Churcher's Railway Pages ( 2005 .

(February 2002 ), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, ''Trains Magazine'', p. 17.

Skeats, William J. (April/May/June 2005), "The New York & Atlantic Railway", ''The Railroad Press'' (65), p. 32.

Union Pacific Railroad, '' Union Pacific Railroad Chronological History ''. Retrieved September 3 2005