Events By month February events February 27 – 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. March events March 9 – Sprinter starts service between Oceanside and Escondido, California, reinstating passenger service on the Escondido branch line. March 15 – The Osaka Higashi Line is scheduled to open in Osaka, Japan; 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. – Kolkata Metro is extended from Tollygunge station to Pranabnagar station. April events April 1 – The Miki Railway Miki Line in Japan, which connected Yakujin Station in Kakogawa and Miki Station in Miki, is closed. 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. June events 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. June 2–6 – AfricaRail 2008 Conference. July events July 5 – Meeting between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador regarding a proposed rail link for freight and passengers between the three countries, also connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic. August events August 1 – China officially opens the Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway line, the first in the world regularly to host trains traveling up to . – 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. November events November – Voter approval of Measure M in Los Angeles County, California, commits additional tax dollars to transit projects. December events December 27 – The first section of the new Valley Metro Rail system, part of Valley Metro in Phoenix, Arizona, opened. By season Summer events – The project to rebuild and upgrade Guiyang Southern Station to more than double its capacity is expected to be completed. Unknown date events – Indian Railways expects to complete the conversion of its electrified section in Mumbai from a 1,500 volt DC system to