Tacoma, Washington. August 31 – Opening of KL Monorail in Kuala Lumpur. September events September 1 – Deutsche Bahn took over operations of shipping company Stinnes Group in Germany. September 25 – James J. Dermody became President of Long Island Rail Road in New York. October events October 1 – M>Train (Melbourne, Australia) withdrew its fleet of Siemens trains for the second time. October 7 – RENFE opened the Madrid–Lleida section of the system's new standard gauge AVE Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line via Zaragoza in Spain. October 27 – Fleet of Siemens trains returned to M>Train (Melbourne, Australia) service, some minus livery. November events November 3 – NYC Subway's "Redbird" R36 trains make final run from 42nd Street Times Square to Willets Point Shea Stadium. November 4 – A new intermodal service was inaugurated between Aiton, France, and Orbassano (near Turin), Italy, to transport complete trucks (both the tractor and trailer) and their loads. The trains include coach seating for the truck drivers. November 28 – SNCF (France) celebrates the one-billionth passenger on its TGV. December events December 1 – JR West discontinued service on the Kabe Line between Kabe and Sandankyō stations. December 5 – Opening of Severomuysky Tunnel on Baikal Amur Mainline after twenty-seven years’ construction. December 9 – The European Commission approved the franchise of the Trans-Pennine Express JV between Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and other northern England locations as a joint operation of FirstGroup and Keolis. December 17 – AirTrain JFK opened in New York City. December 20 – The KCR West Rail in Hong Kong started services. December – Great North Eastern Railway, operators of services on the East Coast Main Line between England and Scotland, began trials of 802.11b wireless LAN access to the Internet on their Mallard InterCity 225 trains. Accidents January 3 – Ghatnandur train crash: A passenger train travelling from Secunderabad to Manmad, crashed into the rear end of a heavy goods train near Ghatnandur in Maharashtra, India, killing 18 people. January 27 A head-on collision between an Italian and a French train in the Tende line's Biogna tunnel left two dead and four seriously injured. 2003 Mumbai bombing: A bicycle bomb exploded near Vile Parle railway station in Mumbai, India, killing one person. January 31 – The Waterfall rail accident occurred near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. A train derailed, killing seven people on board. February 1 – The Dete train