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==Events== ;December 1 : * – The Norwegian National Rail Administration announces the sale of its electrical grid along the Bergen Line from Nesbyen to Voss, to Energiselskapet Buskerud. ;December 3 : * – Construction work on the Daxi Passenger Line connecting Datong and Xi'an begins in China. When completed, trains are expected to run at on the long railway line. It will cut the rail travel time between the two cities from 16 hours 25 minutes to roughly 3 hours. There will be 29 stations along the line, of which 11 are existing and 18 are new. The investment of the railway is 96.33 billion yuan; and the project is expected to be completed in 2014. : * – After the Canadian federal government enacted back-to-work legislation on November 30, about 1,700 Canada-based railroad engineers return to work following a short strike action against Canadian National Railway (CN). The strike was called to protest CN's proposal to increase the engineers' working mileage limit from per month to in exchange for a 1.5% wage increase. The mileage limit increase would have brought the engineers' limit in line with that of current CN conductors. CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will resume negotiations on these issues. ;December 12 : * – SNCF launches Francilien electric multiple units for commuter rail services in the Paris and Île-de-France ''région''. : * – Belgrade–Sarajevo through train reinstated after 17 years. ;December 17 : * – Norwegian Air Shuttle introduces check-in terminals at Oslo Central Station for their passengers using the Flytoget airport express train service to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. ;December 19 : * – The Central Link light rail line in Seattle, Washington operated by Sound Transit is extended from Tukwila to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. ;December 20 : * – All Eurostar services between the United Kingdom and the European continent are suspended after heavy snowfalls in the UK cause a series of electrical disruptions. A number of trains carrying more than 2,000 passengers were stopped within the Channel Tunnel beginning on Friday, December 18, due to snow and cold-related problems; some passengers remained on the stopped trains for as long as 16 hours until crews could escort them out of the tunnel. ;December 21 : * – Official inauguration of Rio de Janeiro Metro extension to Ipanema together with a new connection between São Cristóvão and Central, alleviating the former bottleneck at Estácio. ;December 22 : * – Construction work on three railway lines begins in China. The long Railway Corridor at Central South of Shanxi Province is a double-track electrified coal railway; The long high-speed Hefei–Fuzhou Passenger Railway and the long high-speed Hangzhou–Changsha Passenger Railway, both designed for running, will be opened in 2014. The investment for Hefei-Fuzhou is ¥110 billion and for Hangzhou-Changsha is ¥131 billion. : * – The Norwegian National Rail Administration cancels a contract with Asea Brown Boveri for development and installation of the Merkur signaling system for installation on parts of the Sørland Line and Nordland Line. ;December 23 : * – An upgraded Nydalen Station in Oslo opened.〔 ;December 26 : * – Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway opens in China. The first trains leave Wuhan, Changsha and Guangzhou North stations at 9:00am. The main line of the railway is long between Wuhan and Guangzhou South, however, since the construction of Guangzhou South Railway Station has not yet completed, trains terminate at Guangzhou North Station until January 30, 2010. Two daily non-stop trains, numbers G1001 and G1003, cover the long journey from Wuhan to Guangzhou North in 2 hours, 57 minutes, to make the world's new commercial train speed record at . ;December 27 : * – Construction work on Yungui Railway begins in China. The long railway connects Kunming and Nanning, with a total investment of 89.481 billion yuan; of the entire length, will be built on bridges and will be built in tunnels. 25 stations will be constructed along the line. The design speed of the railway is . The railway is expected to be opened in 2015. ;December 29 : * – Construction work on three railway lines begins in China. The long Zhengzhou-Jiaozuo Intercity Railway, with a total investment of 9.76 billion yuan; of the entire length, is newly built, and is shared with the existing Jingguang Railway. Three intermediate stations will be built. The maximum speed on the new line is designed to be at . The long Zhengzhou-Kaifeng Intercity Railway, designed speed at 200 km/h which will cut the travel time to 19 minutes, is estimated to cost 5.87 billion yuan. The Zhengzhou-Xinzheng Airport Railway, long, top speed 200 km/h, travel time 14 minutes, total cost 5.59 billion yuan. These railways are expected to be opened in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「December 2009 in rail transport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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