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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2008.
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| Years in rail transport |
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| Timeline of railway history |
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2008.
January 16 – The Tozai Line in Kyoto is extended 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from Nijo to Uzumasa-Tenjingawa. [1] 
– Official opening of Santo Domingo Metro.
– National Express changes the name of the railway operating company one to National Express East Anglia as part of a company-wide rebranding exercise. [2] [3] 
March 9 – Sprinter starts service between Oceanside and Escondido, California, [4] reinstating passenger service on the Escondido branch line. March 15 – The Osaka Higashi Line is scheduled to open in Osaka, Japan; [5] the opening was originally scheduled for 2006, but delayed due to problems acquiring land. March 27 – Heathrow Terminal 5 station opens in London. March 30 – Yokohama Municipal Subway's Green Line is opened for regular operations. [6] 
– Kolkata Metro is extended from Tollygunge station to Pranabnagar station.[ citation needed ] April 1 – The Miki Railway Miki Line in Japan, which connected Yakujin Station in Kakogawa and Miki Station in Miki, is closed. [7] April 26 – FrontRunner , a new commuter rail service, begins running in Utah. April 28 – Wrexham & Shropshire begin to run passenger services between London Marylebone station, the West Midlands, Shropshire and north-east Wales. [8] [9] [10] 
June 2 – An unexploded bomb from World War II is found near where the District and Hammersmith & City lines cross the Prescott Channel, not far from Bromley-by-Bow tube station, causing disruption to trains. [11] June 14 – Opening of the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Subway Line between Shibuya and Ikebukuro (8.9 km (5.5 mi)). [13] 
– China officially opens the Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway line, the first in the world regularly to host trains traveling up to 350 km/h (220 mph). [14] [15] [16] – LNER-design Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado makes first official move under its own steam, the first main line steam locomotive built in Britain since 1960. [17] 
October 19 – The Nakanoshima Line operated by Keihan Railway opens for service between Nakanoshima and Temmabashi in Osaka, Japan. [18] November – Voter approval of Measure M in Los Angeles County, California, commits additional tax dollars to transit projects. December 27 – The first section of the new Valley Metro Rail system, part of Valley Metro in Phoenix, Arizona, opened. [19] [20] [21] – The project to rebuild and upgrade Guiyang Southern Station to more than double its capacity is expected to be completed. [22]  | This section has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
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– Indian Railways expects to complete the conversion of its electrified section in Mumbai from a 1,500 volt DC system to 25,000 volts AC; this will make the Mumbai section's electrification consistent with the rest of Indian Railways' network.
– Vietnam expects to complete construction on the Hanoi–Lào Cai railway line upgrade. [23] 
– The city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, will begin construction of a new intercity light railway beginning with a 26.5 km (16.5 mi) section between Baltiyskaya Zhemchuzhina and the Obukhovo [ ambiguous ] metro station. [24] April 28 – 2008 Shandong train collision: Sixty-six people are killed and almost 250 injured when a passenger train from Beijing careers off the rails and slams into another train in eastern China. The rail accident, the worst in China in more than a decade, happens near the city of Zibo in Shandong province.
August 8 – 2008 Studénka train wreck: A EuroCity train en route to Prague strikes a part of a motorway bridge that has fallen onto the track near Studénka station and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others. September 12 – 2008 Chatsworth train collision: A Metrolink commuter train, having passed a signal at danger, collides head-on into a Union Pacific freight train in Los Angeles, killing 25 and injuring 130. [25] 
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The Keihan Nakanoshima Line is a railway line operated by the Keihan Electric Railway in Osaka, Japan. It opened on October 19, 2008, and has a ruling grade of 1 in 25 (4%).
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