2023 in rail transport

Events

January

• January 2 – Line M7 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Mecidiyeköy to Yıldız.
• January 6 – Line M8 of the Istanbul Metro opens between Bostancı and Parseller.
• January 7 – Line T Third Street of the San Francisco Muni Metro rerouted via the Central Subway to Chinatown station.
• January 18
• – Beijing Subway introduces through service between Line 9 and the Fangshan Line.
• – Chongqing Rail Transit: Line 9 extends from Xingke Ave to Huashigou and Line 10 extends from Liyuchi to Houbao.
• January 19 – Mumbai Metro: Line 2 extends from Dahanukarwadi to Andheri West and Line 7 extends from Aarey to Gundavali.
• January 22 – Line M11 of the Istanbul Metro opens between Kağıthane and Kargo Terminali.
• January 23 – Metro Express: Service extends from Port Louis Victoria to Place d'Armes and Rèduit branch opens.
• January 25 – MTA Long Island Rail Road opens shuttle service between Jamaica and Grand Central Madison via the East Side Access.

February

• February 4 – Changping Line of the Beijing Subway extends from Qinghe railway station to .
• February 8 – Line 2 of the Shiraz Metro opens between Qahramanan and Imam Hossein.
• February 10 – Ankeng light rail of the New Taipei Metro opens between Shuangcheng and Shisizhang.
• February 18 – Mostaganem tramway: Line 1 opens between La Salamandre and Karouba and Line 2 opens between Gare de Mostaganem SNTF and Nouvelle Gare Routière.
• February 27
• – Line 5 of Chongqing Rail Transit extends from to .
• – Line 2 of the Karaj Metro opens between Golshahr 45-metre and Ayatollah Taleghani.
• – MTA Long Island Rail Road begins full service to Grand Central Madison via the East Side Access.

March

• March 1 – Bolshaya Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro extends from Kashirskaya to Nizhegorodskaya and from Elektrozavodskaya to Savyolovskaya.
• March 10
• – Luton DART opens between Luton Airport and Luton Airport Parkway.
• – R211A cars enter passenger service on the A line of the MTA New York City Subway.
• March 16
• – MRT Putrajaya Line extends from Kampung Batu to Putrajaya Sentral.
• – Line 2 of the Panama Metro extends via a branch from Corredor Sur to Aeropuerto.
• March 17 – Line 5 of the Dalian Metro opens between Hutan Xinqu and Houguan.
• March 18
• – Baku-Gabala train route in Azerbaijan was launched.
• – Tehran Metro: extends from Tarbiat Modares University to Imam Hossein and extends from Meydan-e San'at to Shahid Dadman.
• – Eastern Kanagawa Rail Link: TōkyÅ« Shin-Yokohama Line opens between Shin-yokohama and Hiyoshi and Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line extends from Hazawa Yokohama-Kokudai to Shin-yokohama.
• – switches to a new underground alignment to serve an expanded Ōsaka Station.
• March 26 – Purple Line of the Namma Metro extends via a disconnected branch from Krishnarajapura to Whitefield (Kadugodi).
• March 27
• – Nanakuma Line of the Fukuoka City Subway extends from Tenjin-Minami to Hakata.
• – Málaga Metro: Line 1 extends from El Perchel to Atarazanas and Line 2 extends from El Perchel to Guadalmedina.
• March 31 – Line B of the Rotterdam Metro extends from Hoek van Holland Haven to Hoek van Holland Strand.

April

• April 1 – Rumoi Main Line closes between Ishikari-Numata and Rumoi.
• April 7 – Jinyidong Line of the Jinhua Rail Transit extends from Sports Center to Ming & Qing Dynasty Palaces.
• April 8 – Line M3 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Başakşehir MetroKent to Kayaşehir Merkez.
• April 11 – Vitoria-Gasteiz tram network extends from Florida to Salburua.
• April 12 – Line M4 of the Ankara Metro extends from Atatürk Kültür Merkezi to Kızılay.
• April 13 – Cross-border passenger service begins between Kunming and Vientiane via the Kunming-Yuxi, Yuxi-Mohan, and Boten-Vientiane rail corridors.
• April 14 – Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merge to form CPKC.
• April 20 – Akçaray tram extends from Plajyolu to Kuruçeşme.
• April 25 – Circle Line of the Tashkent Metro extends from QoÊ»yliq to Kuruvchilar.
• April 26 – Ankara–Sivas high speed railway opens for commercial operation.
• April 29 – Line A of the Bordeaux tram network extends via a branch from Quatre Chemins to Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac.

May

• May 1 – Line 4 of the Tehran Metro extends from Eram-e Sabz to Allameh Ja'fari.
• May 2 – Line 1 of the Quito Metro opens for partial commercial operation between El Labrador and Quitumbe.
• May 9 – opens between Shantang and Guanyingang.
• May 11 – Line 1 of the Quito Metro ends service a week after opening.
• May 28 – DfT Operator's TransPennine Express takes over the TransPennine contract from FirstGroup.

June

• June 1
• – TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram ends service.
• – Zhangjiang Tram ends service.
• June 6 – Line 4 of the Changchun Rail Transit extends from Tiangong Road to Tianxin Road.
• June 7 – Edinburgh Trams extends from St Andrew Square, Edinburgh to Newhaven.
• June 8 – Lastochka train starts operating passenger services to Abkhazia, linking Sochi and Gagra
• June 11 – Commercial service opens between Montreux and Interlaken Ost.
• June 16 – Los Angeles Metro Rail: A Line extends from 7th Street/Metro Center to APU/Citrus College via the Regional Connector, E Line extends from 7th Street/Metro Center to Atlantic via the Regional Connector, and L Line ends service.
• June 19 – MRT Yellow Line opens between Lat Phrao and Samrong.
• June 24
• – Line 11 of the Suzhou Metro opens between Weiting and Huaqiao.
• – Line 10 of the Île-de-France tram network opens between La Croix de Berny and Jardin Parisien.
• June 27 – Xi'an Metro: Line 2 extends from Xi'an Beizhan to Caotan and from Weiqunan to Changninggong and Line 16 opens between Qinchuangyuanzhongxin and Shijingli.
• June 28
• – Xihuan Line, a southern extension of Line 3 of the Changsha Metro, opens between Shantang and Xiangtan North railway station.
• – Line S4 of the Nanjing Metro opens between Chahe and Chuzhou Railway Station.
• June 29 – Line 2 of the Lanzhou Metro opens between Yanbai Bridge and Dongfanghong Square.
• June 30 – Honolulu Skyline opens on the island of OÊ»ahu between KualakaÊ»i and Hālawa.

July

• July 1
• – Seohae Line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway extends from Sosa to Daegok.
• – Line 1 of the Hefei Metro extends from Hefei Railway Station to Zhangwa.
• July 4 – Line 4 of the Milan Metro extends from Dateo to San Babila.
• July 8 – Angers tramway: Line B opens between Belle-Beille Campus and Monplaisir and Line C opens between Belle-Beille Campus and Angers Roseraie.
• July 20 – LRTA 13000 class cars enter passenger service on Line 1 of the Manila Light Rail Transit System.
• July 24 – Line 3 Scarborough of the Toronto Subway ends service.
• July 26 – Line 2 of the Shaoxing Metro opens from Jinghu Hospital to Tandu.
• July 31
• – First phase of the Réseau express métropolitain opens in Greater Montreal between Brossard and Central Station.
• – Airport MRT Line of the Taoyuan Metro extends from Huanbei to Laojie River.

August

• August 1 – Pune Metro: Purple Line extends from Phugewadi to Civil Court and Aqua Line extends from Garware College to Ruby Hall Clinic.
• August 7 – Line 3 of the Tampere light rail network extends from Pyynikintori to Santalahti.
• August 17 – Line D3 of the Moscow Central Diameters opens from Zelenograd-Kryukovo to Ippodrom.
• August 18 – Red Line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail opens between HaKomemiyut and Kiryat Arye and between HaKomemiyut and Petah Tikva.
• August 26
• – Line S2 of Wenzhou Rail Transit opens between Dongshan and Qingdong Road.
• – Utsunomiya Light Rail opens between Utsunomiya Station East and Haga Takanezawa Industrial Park.
• August 27 – Fuzhou Metro: Line 4 opens between Fenghuangchi and Difengjiang and Line 5 extends from Ancient Luozhou Town and Fuzhou South Railway Station.
• August 28 – Jabodebek LRT: Cibubur Line opens between Harjamukti and Dukuh Atas BNI and Bekasi Line opens between Jati Mulya and Dukuh Atas BNI.
• August 30 – Line T5 of the Istanbul Tram extends from Cibali to Eminönü.

September

• September 4 – Blue Line of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit opens for limited commercial operation between Mile 2 and Marina.
• September 6 – Solntsevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro extends from Rasskazovka to Aeroport Vnukovo.
• September 7 – Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro extends from Seligerskaya to Fiztekh.
• September 8 – Line 3 of the Zhengzhou Metro extends between Yinggang and Binhe Xincheng Nan.
• September 9 – Line D4 of the Moscow Central Diameters opens from Zheleznodorozhnaya to Aprelevka.
• September 15 – El Insurgente commuter rail opens from Zinacantepec to Lerma.
• September 16 – T Line of the Link light rail system extends from Theater District to St. Joseph.
• September 17
• – Airport Express Line of the Delhi Metro extends from Dwarka Sector 21 to Yashobhoomi Dwarka Sector 25.
• – Line 1 of the West Midlands Metro extends from The Royal to Wolverhampton.
• September 18 – Line Z and Line K of the Tren Interoceánico resume freight service.
• September 21 – Line 1 of the Xi'an Metro extends from Fenghesenlingongyuan to Xianyangxizhan.
• September 22 – Brightline extends from West Palm Beach to Orlando International Airport.
• September 25 – Line 3 of the Santiago Metro extends from Los Libertadores to Plaza de Quilicura.
• September 26
• – Guangzhou–Shanwei high-speed railway opens.
• – Optics Valley Suspended Monorail opens between Jiufengshan and Longquanshan.
• September 28
• – Fuzhou–Xiamen high-speed railway opens.
• – Shanghai–Nanjing Riverside high-speed railway opens.
• – Line 10 of the Zhengzhou Metro opens between Zhengzhou railway station and Zhengzhou West railway station.
• September 29
• – Line 3 of the Harbin Metro extends from Taipingqiao to Chinese-baroque Block.
• – Shenyang Metro: Line 2 extends from Quanyunlu to Taoxianjichang and Line 4 opens between Zhengxinlu and Chuangxinlu.

October

• October 2 – Jakarta–Bandung high-speed railway opens.
• October 4 – West Midlands to Manchester section of the High Speed 2 railway cancelled.
• October 5 – Northern Line of Merseyrail extends from Kirkby to Headbolt Lane.
• October 9 – Purple Line of the Namma Metro extends from Kengeri to Challaghatta and connects Krishnarajapuram with Baiyappanahalli.
• October 10 – Tehran Metro: extends from Shahid Sattari to Koushar and extends from Shahid Dadman to Meydan-e Katab.
• October 13 – Lines 4 and 5 of the Prague tram network extend from Holyně to Slivenec.
• October 20 – Line B of the Lyon Metro extends from to .
• October 21
• – Jokeri light rail opens between Itäkeskus and Keilaniemi.
• – Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System opens initial section between Sahibabad and Duhai.
• October 26 – Line 13 of the Qingdao Metro extends from Jinggangshan Road to Jialingjiang West Road.
• October 28 – Line T4 of the Kayseray opens between Cumhuriyet Meydanı and Ä°zzet Bayraktar Cami.
• October 29
• – Boughezoul–Laghouat railway opens.
• – L-Line of Milwaukee's The Hop opens for limited commercial operation between Wisconsin Ave and Lakefront.

November

• November 4 – Valley Line of Edmonton LRT opens between 102 Street and Mill Woods.
• November 5 – Line 6 of the Dhaka Metro Rail extends from Agargaon to Motijheel.
• November 10 – Eastern Line of Thai Railways extends to Sattahip port with two new stations U Taphao and Chuk Samet.
• November 15 – Line M2 of the Bucharest Metro extends from Berceni to Tudor Arghezi.
• November 17 – Line 1 of the Navi Mumbai Metro opens from CBD Belapur to Pendhar.
• November 20 – Transperth's Armadale and Thornlie lines close for the Victoria Park-Canning Level Crossing Removal Project.
• November 21 – MRT Pink Line opens for limited commercial operation between Nonthaburi Civic Center and Min Buri.
• November 27 – Line 2 of the Santiago Metro extends from La Cisterna to Hospital El Pino.
• November 28 – Line 19 of the Chengdu Metro extends from Jiujiang North to Tianfu Station.
• November 30
• – Chongqing Rail Transit: Line 5 connects Dashiba with Shiqiaopu and Line 10 extends from Houbao to Lanhualu.
• – Line 1 of the Tehran Metro extends via the Imam Khomeini Airport Branch from Forudgahi-e Imam Khomeini to Shahr-e Parand.

December

• December 1
• – Line 5 of the Wuhan Metro extends from Hubei University of Chinese Medicine to Hongxia.
• – Line 1 of the Quito Metro opens between El Labrador and Quitumbe.
• December 4 – Line V of Transilien opens between Massy-Palaiseau and Versailles Chantiers to replace newly discontinued RER C service.
• December 8 – Taipa Line of the Macau Light Rapid Transit extends from Ocean to Barra.
• December 9 – RER C ends service between Savigny-sur-Orge and Massy-Palaiseau.
• December 10
• – Line T12 of the Île-de-France tramway network opens between to .
• – Line 13 of the Hannover Stadtbahn opens between Wallensteinstraße and Hemmingen.
• – Line 15 of the Geneva tramway network extends from Palettes to ZIPLO.
• December 15 – Tren Maya opens between Cancún and San Francisco de Campeche.
• December 16
• – Line 3 of the Guiyang Metro opens between Luowan and Tongmuling.
• – Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway extends from Soyosan to Yeoncheon.
• December 17 – Line 16 of the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tramway network opens between Bensheimer and Sullivan.
• December 20
• – Line 12 of the Zhengzhou Metro opens between Longzihu Dong and Lianghu.
• – Dnipro City Express opens between Dnipro and Kamianske.
• December 21 – of the Lima Metro opens between Evitamiento and Mercado Santa Anita.
• December 22
• – Line Z of the Tren Interoceánico opens for commercial operation between Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos.
• – Line 25 of the Silesian Interurbans extends from Dąb Huta Baildon to Katowice Dąbrowki.
• December 23 – Suzhou Metro introduces through service between Line 3 and Line 11.
• December 26
• – of the Salvador Metro extends from Campinas to Águas Claras.
• – Line 3 of the Harbin Metro extends from Chinese-baroque Block to Beima Road.
• – Hefei Metro: Line 2 extends from Sanshibu to Cuozhen and Line 3 extends from Xingfuba to Sheng Ertong Yiyuan Xinqu.
• December 27
• – Line 2 of Nantong Rail Transit opens between Xingfu and Xianfeng.
• – Line 8 of the Shenzhen Metro extends from Yantian Road to Xiaomeisha.
• – PNR South Main Line reopens between and .
• December 28
• – Line 18 of Chongqing Rail Transit opens between Fuhualu and Tiaodengnan.
• – Guangzhou Metro: Line 5 extends from Wenchong to Huangpu New Port and Line 7 extends from Higher Education Mega Center South to Yanshan.
• – Line 7 of the Nanjing Metro extends via a disconnected branch from Yingtiandajie to Xishanqiao.
• – Line 11 of the Tianjin Metro opens between Dongjiangdao and Dongliliujinglu.
• – Zhengxu Line of the Zhengzhou Metro opens between Chang'anlubei and Xuchangdong Railway Station.
• December 30
• – Beijing Subway: Line 11 extends from Jin'anqiao to Moshikou, Line 16 extends from Yushuzhuang to Wanpingcheng, and Line 17 extends via a disconnected branch from Future Science City North to Workers' Stadium.
• – Line 19 of the Wuhan Metro opens between West Square of Wuhan Railway Station and Xinyuexi Park.
• – Line 4 of the Olsztyn tramway network opens between Dworzec Głowny and Pieczewo.
• December 31 – Tren Maya extends from San Francisco de Campeche to Palenque.

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