becoming the last non-tourist railway in Australia to use steam locomotives. October events October 1 – Botswana Railways created by the government to take over railways within Botswana previously operated by the National Railways of Zimbabwe. October 11 – Soo Line Railroad sells 2,002 miles (3,222 km) of track to the newly formed Wisconsin Central. October 19 – Bintaro Tragedy – a catastrophic crash near Tangerang, Indonesia kills 156 people. October 19 – The Glanrhyd Bridge collapse kills four people when a bridge over the River Towy near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire in Wales is washed away by swollen water. October 31 – Montana Rail Link begins operations on of former Burlington Northern Railroad (originally Northern Pacific) tracks. November events November 1 – British Rail establishes a world speed record for diesel traction, 238.9 km/h (148.4 mph) with a test InterCity 125 formation between Darlington and York. November 7 – The first 6 kilometres of the MRT line in Singapore opened. November 18 – King's Cross fire: 31 killed in a fire on an escalator at King's Cross tube station on the London Underground. December events December 5 – Downpatrick & Ardglass Railway begins public operation, the first Irish gauge heritage railway in Ireland. December 11 – Santa Clara County Transit begins revenue service on the first line of its new light rail system in San Jose, California. Unknown date events The United States Congress divests government ownership of Conrail in the largest initial public stock offering (IPO) to date. Line One (the Red line) of Cairo Metro opens. A passenger express from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore derails at high speed near Johor Bahru, Malaysia, after bolts holding the underframe-mounted air conditioning generator come off causing it to fall off and catapult the particular coach and the ones behind it off the rails. 12 people are killed in the worst accident in KTM's history. Accidents Deaths References