Events By month January events 10 January – Regular through passenger service from Wuhan to Wanzhou over the complete new Yiwan Railway in China starts. The line features of bridges on a total length of . February events 19 February – First public passenger train operates throughout between Caernarfon and Porthmadog Harbour over the restored Welsh Highland Railway. 28 February – Wabtec announces that it has acquired Brush Traction, the English-based locomotive builder and maintainer, for US$31 million. March events 13 March – Kyushu Shinkansen opens between Hakata of Fukuoka and Shin-Yatsushiro, with Osaka and Kagoshima direct bullet train starting. April events March–April – Eurasian Land Bridge test run from Chongqing to Duisburg (DB) via Alashankou crossing, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland, covering in 16 days. 19 April – Zaragoza tram starts its commercial operation. May events 1 May – Veendam railway station opens in the Netherlands. 1 May – Tide Light Rail begins service in Norfolk, Virginia. June events 6 June – Munich–Augsburg railway is upgraded to four-track. 16 June – An NSB Class 73 burns up after catching fire in a burning show shed at Hallingskeid Station on Norway's Bergen Line. 20 June – A-Train commuter rail service begins in northern Texas. 22 June – Shenzhen Metro's Line 5 opens. 28 June – Phase 2 of Shenzhen Metro Line 2 connecting Window of the World Station to Xinxiu Station opens for trial runs. 30 June – Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway opens in China. July events 23 July – Wenzhou train collision: At least 39 people are killed when a China Railway High-speed train collides in rear with a preceding stationary train halted by a lightning strike, throwing two coaches off a viaduct close to Wenzhou in Zhejiang province. August events 7 August – West Valley and Mid-Jordan extensions of TRAX open in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area. 15 August – The Gevingåsen Tunnel on Norway's Nordland Line opens. 19 August – The first line of the Jerusalem Light Rail opens to passengers. It runs from Pisgat Ze'ev in the northeast, south along Road 60 to Jaffa Road (Rehov Yafo). From there, it runs along Jaffa Road westward to the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, and continues to the southwest, crossing the Chords Bridge designed by Santiago Calatrava, along Herzl Boulevard to Beit HaKerem and terminates near Mount Herzl. 26 August – The Bærum Tunnel and section of track between