1999 in the railroads

1998 in the railroads - 1999 - 2000 in the railroads

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1 {{er}} January. France: creation of the trade mark Transilien for the suburban trains of the SNCF for the Ile-de-France.
January 11th. the United States: news oars Talgo starts to circulate in the corridor Seattle - Portland - Eugene exploited by Amtrak on behalf of the department transport of the State of Washington.
1 {{er}} February. France: creation of GIE EurailTest by the SNCF and the RATP in order to market railway material testings to third customers.
February 24th. Netherlands: Cariane, subsidiary autocarist of the SNCF acquires a third of the capital of Syntus, Dutch company Concession naire of regional transport of the province of Gueldre.
March 2nd. France: decree creating the Superior council of the railway public service whose main role is to take care of the corination of the two railway public corporations, the SNCF and RF.
March 24th. Kenya: the derailment of the Train Nairobi - Mombasa close to Kyulu makes 35 dead and a hundred casualties. The accident derait due to the outdatedness of rolling stock.
March 25th. the United Kingdom: Railtrack presents a program of Investissement S of 40,4 billion euros to renovate the railway infrastructure of the country over ten years.
April 12th. Germany: a train suspended of the Monorail of Wuppertal, with about fifty travellers on board, downwards takes down and makes a fall of eight meters. The accident makes five dead and 46 wounded.
April 14th. Japan: the prototype of the Japanese train to magnetic lift Maglev reaches 552 km/h on the experimental track of Yamanashi.
April 15th: Germany: presentation of the pendular news oars ICT ordered by the Deutsche Bahn.
May 14th. Poland: the president of the railroads Polish PKP announces the removal of 60.000 posts of railwaymen (on 206.000) before 2003. This measurement follows the strong fall of the traffics of coal.
June 22nd: Germany - Netherlands: agreement for the fusion of dB Cargo liner and NS Cargo liner, freight respective activities of the Deutsche Bahn and the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, and in January 2000 creation of Rail Cargo liner Europe, famous thereafter Railion.
1 {{er}} July. Canada: the Canadian National acquires the American company Illinois Central Corporation.
of the 5 to the July 31st. Germany: 24 Train S charged with 40 Conteneur S ensure the removal of the German Gouvernement of Bonn Berlin (480 km).
July 12th 1999. France: inauguration of the first branch of the line Éole (the RER E).
July 16th. Japan: startup between Ueno and Sapporo of the night trains “Cassiopée” by the company East Japan Railway.
August 2nd. India: railway catastrophe of Gaisal (Western Bengal): the collision of two express trains on a single track makes more than 400 dead.
August 14th. Denmark - Sweden: pose last apron of the fixed Lien of Oresund connecting Copenhagen to Malmö in the presence of the princess heiress of Sweden and of the crown prince to Denmark.
August. Germany: the first circulation of the trains of the Metropolitan Express train Train GMBH, subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn. They are top-of-the-range express trains intended for the business men.
1 {{er}} September. France: suppression of the First class in the trains of the Parisian suburbs exploited by the SNCF.
September 3rd. the United Kingdom: creation of Eurostar Groups, structure of common management of the trains Eurostar formed by the SNCF, SNCB and ICRR (Inter-Capital and Regional Rail Ltd) whose shareholders are National Express train (40%), the SNCF (35%) and SNCB (15%).
September 20th. France: first appearance of the logo Transilien in the station of Asnières-sur-Seine, new name chosen by the SNCF for the service of Suburbs in Ile-de-France.
October 5th. Great Britain: the rail crash of Paddington (western suburbs of London) made 31 died and more than 150 wounded. The catch hacks some between a Suburban train of Thames Trains and Intercity of the company Great Western Train would be due to the name respect of indication by the first.
October 7th. France: the Concession of the line with metric gauge track Nice - Digne (Railroads of Provence) is allotted for fifteen years to the company Railroads and automobile transport (CFTA), subsidiary of Vivendi by SYMA (Mixed trade-union the Mediterranean the Alps). The personnel, in majority opposed to this decision, puts itself in Grève on December 22nd until January 30th, 2000.
October 28th. France: the SNCF acquires, via its subsidiary company the SNCF Participations, the company Via-GTI, owner of 88 urban networks in France and railway networks in Europe.
November 25th. Sweden: startup of the shuttles Arlanda Express train at high speed between Stockholm and the Airport of Arlanda (42 km).
December 5th. Monaco: inauguration of the news underground Gare of Monaco-Assembles-Carlo.

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