Events February events February 22 – Tretten train disaster: A head-on collision near Tretten station in Norway kills 27. February 28 – Moorgate tube crash on the London Underground: A train accelerates into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station killing 43. March events March 10 – Sanyo Shinkansen opens between Osaka and Fukuoka. Travel time between the two cities is reduced to 2 hours 30 minutes, and from Fukuoka to Tokyo to 5 hours. March 10 – Kosei Line, between Yamashina of Kyoto and Tsuruga route open, with Osaka-Kanazawa, Niigata route express train, through changed from via Hikone, Nagahama route. April events April 1 – The second American Freedom Train tour begins, powered by newly restored Southern Pacific 4449, in Wilmington, Delaware. See also American Freedom Train - 1975-76 station stops. April 16 – In Portugal, Decree-Law 205-B/175 is published, nationalising the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses. June events June 6 – An overnight northbound passenger train from London, England, bound for Glasgow, Scotland, does not receive warning of a temporary speed restriction resulting in the Nuneaton rail crash. June 8 – Two trains collide on a single-track stretch between Lenggries and Munich due to a dispatcher's error. Forty-one die and 122 are injured. July events July 1 – Australian National Railways Commission takes over assets of Commonwealth Railways. July 18 – Barcelona Sants railway station opens. July 19 – Hatton Cross tube station opens, the first stage of the extension of London Underground's Piccadilly line to London Heathrow Airport. August events August 5 – The first Amfleet passenger cars enter service on the Northeast Corridor. They are Amtrak's first new intercity passenger cars and the Budd Company's last. August 10 – British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train achieves 245 km/h (152.3 mph) between Goring and Uffington on the Western Region. September events September 24 – Scottish-built ex-État 140C 287 on hire to CFTA works a train from its depot at Gray, Haute-Saône, to Sainte-Colombe, the last commercial steam-hauled working on French railways. September 27 – Official opening of the National Railway Museum in York, England. October events October 19 – US-built SNCF Class 141R 1187 of Vénissieux depot works a special return working between Lyon and Veynes, the last steam-hauled passenger train operated by SNCF. October 24 – The first through passenger train over the TAZARA Railway arrives in Dar es Salaam, marking completion of this Chinese-funded gauge link