2022 in rail transport

Events

January

January 1- opens.January 1 - First phase of the Lusail Tram opens.January 8 – Hangzhou–Taizhou high-speed railway opens.January 11 - Trial opening of the Jinyi section of Jinhua Rail Transit's Jinyidong line.January 13 - Line 4 of the Paris Métro is extended from Mairie de Montrouge to Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac.January 15 - The Jiaxing Tram is extended from Fanggong Road Binhe Road to Jiaxing Railway Station.January 25 - The first phase of Line 9 of the Chongqing Rail Transit opens between Gaotanyan and Xingke Avenue.

February

February 16 - Opening of Line 2 extension of the Rabat–Salé tramway.February 21 - The first phases of Lines [Line Line 3 (Hangzhou Metro)|3 (Hangzhou Metro)|3] and [Line Line 10 (Hangzhou Metro)|10 (Hangzhou Metro)|10] of the Hangzhou Metro open, and Line 4 is extended from Pengbu to Chihua Street.

March

March 6 - The Pune Metro starts operations between PCMC Bhavan and Phugewadi on the Purple Line, and between Vanaz and Garware College on the Aqua Line.March 19

* - Line 4 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is extended from Danggogae to Jinjeop.
* - The 75 kilometer 'Beno' rail line between Belgrade and Novi Sad in Serbia is reopened as a high speed line as part of the Budapest–Belgrade railway.March 21 - The Union Square Branch of the MBTA subway's Green Line Extension opens in Somerville.March 22 - Line 3 of the Manila Metro Rail Transit System completes an upgrading and rehabilitation project.March 25
* - Construction of the Moscow–Saint Petersburg high-speed railway is suspended.
* - The Bilbao tram is extended from Atxuri to Bolueta using the former Euskotren Trena alignment between Kukullaga and Atxuri.March 28 - Allegro international high-speed service ends operations.March 29 - Punjabi Bagh West station on the Delhi Metro becomes an interchange between the Pink Line and the Green Line.March 30 – Guiyang railway loop line opens.March 31
* - The first phase of Line 22 of the Guangzhou Metro opens from Panyu Square to Chentougang.
* - The Krasnodar tramway is extended from Solnechnaya to Ulitsa Petra Metalnikova.

April

April 1

* - [Line Line 7 (Mumbai Metro)|7 (Hangzhou Metro)|Line 7] of the Hangzhou Metro is extended from Citizen Center to Wushan Square, and Line 9 is extended from Coach Center to Guanyintang.
* - ScotRail takes over from Abellio ScotRail as operator of last resort of the ScotRail franchise.April 2 - The first phases of Lines 2 and 7 of the Mumbai Metro open.April 9 - Line 5 of the Prague tram network is extended from Sídliště Barrandov to Holyně.April 23 - Line 10 of the Poznań tram network is extended from Lechicka/Naramowicka to Błażeja.April 25 - Line 2 of the Darmstadt tram network is extended from Hochschulstadion to TU-Lichtwiese.April 29
* - Line 1 of the Shaoxing Metro is extended from China Textile City to Fangquan.
* - Line 5 of the Fuzhou Metro opens.

May

May 1

* - Line 7 of the Guangzhou Metro is extended from Guangzhou South Railway Station to Meidi Dadao.
* - Opening of the first phase of the Fenghuang Maglev.May 6 - The MTR retires Metro-Cammell EMUs after 40 years of service.May 15 - The MTR East Rail line is extended across Victoria Harbour to Hong Kong Island.May 17 - Line 10 of Metrovalencia opens.May 20 - The Tempe Streetcar opens in Tempe, Arizona.May 24 - The central section of Crossrail opens, and Crossrail and TfL Rail are officially branded the "Elizabeth line".
May 28
* - The Odense Letbane opens.
* - The Shinbundang Line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is extended from Gangnam to Sinsa, and the Sillim Line opens.May 30 - Line 1 of the Almaty Metro is extended from Moskva to Bauyrzhan Momyshuly.May 31 - Line 12 of the Paris Metro is extended from Front Populaire to Mairie d'Aubervilliers.

June

June 3 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen train derailment: A double-decker Regionalbahn passenger train derails near Burgrain in Bavaria, killing four people and injuring many more.June 10 - Line 3 of the Hangzhou Metro is extended from Chaowang Road to West Wenyi Road, and the branch from South Xixi Wetland to Shima opens.June 12 - The Gawler railway line reopens after an 18-month closure due to the electrification of the line.June 16

* - Opening of the Hotan–Ruoqiang railway, completing a 2,712-km loop line around the Taklamakan Desert.
* - Partial opening of MRT Putrajaya line, Malaysia's fifth metro line, from Sungai Buloh/Kwasa Damansara to Kampong Batu.June 17 - A passenger train is introduced between Yerevan and Shoghakat.June 18 - Line 4 of the Chongqing Rail Transit is extended from Tangjiatuo to Huangling.June 20
* - The Chengjiao line of the Zhengzhou Metro is extended from Xinzheng International Airport to Zhengzhou Hangkonggang Railway Station.
* - Passenger train is relaunched between Tashkent and Dushanbe.June 24 - Line 10 of the Hangzhou Metro is extended from Cuibai Road to Xueyuan Road.June 25 - The Jiaxing Tram is extended from Jiaxing Railway Station to East Zhongshan Road/Anle Road.June 26 - Reopening of the PNR South Main Line stretch from San Pablo to Lucena after a period of suspension starting October 2013, as part of the PNR South Long Haul.June 28 - Line 6 of the Changsha Metro opens.June 29 - Line 5 of the Kunming Metro opens.June 30 - Line M2 of the Warsaw Metro is extended west from Księcia Janusza to Bemowo.

July

July 1 - Connection between Madrid Atocha and Madrid Chamartín opens.July 2 - Line T2 of the Bursa tramway opens.July 3 - Opening of the initial route of the Cairo Light Rail Transit.July 6 - Île-de-France tramway Line 13 opens.July 14 - Green Line of the Kolkata Metro is extended from Phoolbagan to Sealdah.July 17 - Line 1 of the West Midlands Metro is extended from Birmingham Library to Edgbaston.July 18 - London Overground extension to Barking Riverside opens.July 22 - Opening of the initial section of the Dali–Ruili railway.July 29 - Amtrak extends the Ethan Allen Express to Union Station in Burlington, Vermont.July 30 - Four infill stations open on Line 19 of the Beijing Subway.

August

August 6 - The Chongqing Rail Transit Jiangtiao line opens between Tiaodeng and Shengquansi.August 21 - The SEPTA Regional Rail Media/Elwyn Line is extended from Elwyn to Wawa, and the line is renamed the Media/Wawa Line.August 28 - Line 6 of the Fuzhou Metro opens.August 29

* - Line T3 of the Caen tramway is extended from Collège Hawking to Fleury-sur-Orne.
* - Opening of the section between Łagiewniki and Kurdwanów on the Kraków tramway.August 30 - Full opening of the Jinyi section of Jinhua Rail Transit's Jinyidong line.August 31 - Opening of the Yekaterinburg interurban tram Route 333, connecting Yekaterinburg to Verkhnyaya Pyshma.

September

September 1 - The Kochi Metro is extended from Pettah to SN Junction.September 6 - Opening of the initial section of the Changde–Yiyang–Changsha high-speed railway.September 11 - Line T1 of the Luxembourg tramway is extended to Lycée Bonnevoie.September 12 - RATP introduces automated trains on Line 4 of the Paris Metro.September 13 - Opening of the Red Line and the first phase of the Green Line of Mi Tren in Cochabamba.September 20 - Line B of the Rennes Metro opens.September 22

* - Hangzhou Metro Line 3 is extended from West Wenyi Road to Wushanqiancun, Line 10 is extended from Xueyuan Road to Huanglong Sports Center, and Line 19 opens.
* - Opening of the final section of the Shangqiu–Hangzhou high-speed railway.September 23 - Opening of the initial section of the Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen.September 24 - Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway introduces automatic train control across the full length of the line.September 28 - Line M2 of the Warsaw Metro is extended east from Trocka to Bródno.September 30
* - Line S8 of the Nanjing Metro is extended south from Taishanxincun to Changjiangdaqiaobei.
* - Line 2 of the Dalian Metro is extended from Xinzhaizi to Dalian North railway station.
* - Line 6 of the Zhengzhou Metro opens from Jiayu to Changzhuang.
* - All rail service between and, California was suspended due to coastal erosion under the track in San Clemente. Service along the Surf Line was restored the following April.

October

October 2

* - The East-West Corridor of the Ahmedabad Metro begins service.
* - Line M4 of the Istanbul Metro is extended from Tavşantepe to Sabiha Gökçen Airport.October 3 - The Long Island Rail Road's Third Track Project between Floral Park and Hicksville is completed.October 5 - The Kaohsiung Metro's Circular light rail is extended from TRA Museum of Fine Arts to Heart of Love River.October 6
* - Opening of Phase 3-1 of Cairo Metro Line 3, linking Attaba to Kit-Kat.
* - The North-South Corridor of the Ahmedabad Metro begins service.October 7 - The northern portion of the Los Angeles Metro Rail's K Line opens after several delays.October 9 - Transperth's Airport line opens between High Wycombe and Claremont.October 10
* - Line 3 of the Athens Metro is extended from Nikaia to Dimotiko Theatro.
* - The Metro Express is extended from Phoenix to Curepipe Central.October 17 - Line 9 of the Helsinki tram network is extended from Pasila to Ilmalantori.October 24 - Arrow begins service in Redlands, California.October 26 - Cádiz Bay tram-train begun operation.October 28
* - Shenzhen Metro Line 11 is extended from Futian to Gangxia North and Line 14 opens.
* – Line F4 of the Istanbul Metro network opens.October 29 - The Trans-Sulawesi Railway opens between Barru and Pangkep on a limited basis.

November

November 1 - The Olomouc tramway is extended from Trnkova to U Kapličky.November 5 - Gaziantep's Gaziray starts operation.November 6 - Elizabeth line direct service commenced between Paddington and Shenfield and between Reading and Heathrow to Abbey Wood.November 10 - Opening of Line 1 of the Nantong Rail Transit.November 13 - Opening of Stage 3 of the MRT Thomson–East Coast line.November 15 - The Washington Metro Silver Line is extended to Ashburn via Dulles International Airport.November 18 - Line 10 of the Tianjin Metro opens.November 19 - Central Subway in San Francisco opens after repeated delays.November 21 - Opening of the Bergen Light Rail Line 2 between Byparken and Fyllingsdalen.November 26 - The first section of Milan Metro Line 4 opens between Dateo and Linate Aeroporto.November 28 - Lines 6B and 12 of the Shenzhen Metro open.November 29 - Nanhai Tram Line 1 extends from Sanshanxinchengbei to Linyuedong.

December

December 1 - Line 2 of the Ningbo Rail Transit extends from Congyuan Road to Honglian.December 3 - Line M1 of the Helsinki Metro extends from Matinkylä to Kivenlahti.December 9 - Opening of Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed railway.December 11

* - Opening of the Osová-Nemocnice Bohunice tram line in Brno.
* - The Aqua Line of the Nagpur Metro is extended from Sitabuldi to Prajapati Nagar, while the Orange Line is extended from Kasturchand Park to Automative Square.
* - The Follo Line opened after delays.
* - Opening of the Limmattalerbahn, a LRT line connecting the Limmatvalley with Zurich as Line 20 in the network.December 12 - Opening of the Medford Branch of the Green Line Extension to Somerville and Medford, Massachusetts.December 17 - Paju's Uncheon Station on the Gyeongui-Jungang Line opens.December 19 - The Silesian Interurbans is extended from Zagórze BMC to Zagórze Rondo Jana Pawla II.December 20 - The PHX Sky Train is extended from Terminal 3 to Rental Car Center.December 21 - Brightline opens new infill stations at Aventura and Boca Raton.December 23 - The Purple Line of the Baku Metro is extended from Avtovağzal to Xocəsən.December 26
* - Line 5 of the Hefei Metro is extended from Wanghuchengxi to Jiqiao Road.
* - Opening of Line 4 of the Qingdao Metro.December 28
* - The first phase of the Dhaka Metro from Utara to Agargaon opened.
* - Opening of Line S1 of the Taizhou Rail Transit.
* - Opening of the Yidong section of the Jinyidong line of the Jinhua Rail Transit.
* - Opening of the Huangshi Modern Tram.
* - Opening of Line 1 of the Pingshan SkyShuttle.
* - Opening of Line 16 of the Shenzhen Metro.
* - Line 1 of the Nanjing Metro is extended from Baguazhoudaqiaonan to Maigaoqiao, while Line 7 begins operation.
* - Opening of Line 3 of the Foshan Metro.December 29 - Line 6 of the Xi'an Metro is extended from Xibeigongyedaxue to Fangzhicheng.December 30
* - Line 7 of the Wuhan Metro is extended from Garden Expo North to Hengdian, Line 16 is extended from Zhoujiahe to Hannan General Airport.
* - Opening of Purple Line of the Kolkata Metro.December 31 - Line 16 of the Beijing Subway is extended from to.

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