- April - The United States Court Of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit in Pierre, South Dakota , rules that the Dakota, Minnesota And Eastern Railroad may use Eminent Domain to purchase land in South Dakota in order to build the railroad's extension into Wyoming 's Powder River Basin .
- April - Great North Eastern Railway s, operators of services on the East Coast Main Line in England and Scotland , introduce 802.11b Wireless LAN access to the Internet on their Mallard Intercity 225 trains.
- April 1 - High Speed Train service is inaugurated in Korea between Seoul and Pusan ; the trains make the trip in 2 hours and 40 minutes.
- April 6 - Amtrak passenger train '' City Of New Orleans '' enroute to Chicago from New Orleans derails near Flora, Mississippi , resulting in one fatality.
- April 18 - Connex takes over the half of the Melbourne Suburban Rail Network formerly operated by M>Train .
- April 22 - In the Ryongchon Disaster , a flammable cargo explodes at the Railway Station in the town of Ryongchŏn , North Korea , near the border with China ; the explosion occurs only a few hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through the station en route back to the capital from a secret meeting in China.
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