Events January events January 1 - Rail Management Corporation takes over operations of the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad. January 1 - Railroad Services takes over operations of the now 5 year old Abbeville-Grimes Railway, renaming it to A&G Railroad. January 1 - Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bundesbahn are merged to form Deutsche Bahn. January 9 - The Chicago Transit Authority closes its Green Line rail service on the west and south sides of Chicago for a massive $400 million, 2½ year rehabilitation and modernization program. January 24 – Following the Northridge earthquake one week prior, an extension of the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line opens to Lancaster to provide traffic relief, as several local freeways had collapsed. New stations were constructed in three days, with further infill stations built in the following weeks. April events April 1 - Management of the British Rail infrastructure is taken over by Railtrack. May events May 6 - The Channel Tunnel linking England and France officially opens. May 26 - LGV Interconnexion Est opens in Paris suburbs. June events June 25 - Vandals place concrete blocks on a railway line at Greenock, Scotland, causing the Greenock rail crash. The train driver is killed along with one passenger. July events July 3 - Gare de Satolas (designed by Santiago Calatrava) opens at Lyon on LGV Rhône-Alpes. July 15 - Kansai Airport Line and Nankai Airport Line open, for the access route of Kansai International Airport, before their formal opening on September 4. August events August 3 - Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited passenger train derails near Batavia, New York, while traveling at 75 mph (120.7 km/h), injuring 125 of the train's passengers and crew members. August 8 - Astram Line open between Hondori and Koiki-koen-mae in new transit system of Hiroshima, Japan. August 22 - Indian Railways orders the first WDC-2 locomotives. August 26 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway operates its last train, just a month short of its centenary. September events September 22 - New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins construction on the 63rd Street Connector which connects the 63rd Street Tunnel to the Queens Boulevard Line. September 30 - The last trains run on the London Underground's Holborn to Aldwych shuttle branch (Piccadilly line) and Epping to Ongar via North Weald shuttle branch (Central line). October events October 7 – The Regional Transportation District in Denver, Colorado opens the first line of