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15 May | • | Driverless 47-car CSX freight
train carrying flammable materials ran for
2 hours at speeds up to 70 km/h in Ohio
until finally stopped by coupling second
braking engine at back
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16 May | • | Car chased by police collided
with train at crossing of Nishi Nippon
Railroad’s Omuta Line in Mizuma Town,
Fukuoka Prefecture, injuring two fugitives
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17 May | • | Domestic flight from Tehran
crashed in northern Iran, killing all 29
people on board, including Transport
Minister Rahman Dadman
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25 May | • | Third-sector companies IGR
Iwate Ginga Tetsudo (IGR Iwate Galaxy
Railroad) and Aoi Mori Tetsudo (Blue
Forest Railway) established to operate
Morioka–Hachinohe line prior to extension
of Tohoku Shinkansen to Hachinohe in
December 2002
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26 May | • | SNCF announced world-record
run of high-speed TGV at 317.4 km/h in 3
hours and 9 minutes between Calais and
Marseilles
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27 May | • | Ground-breaking ceremony held
in Toyama City, Japan for 600-km Hokuriku
Shinkansen (Tokyo–Osaka) scheduled to
open in 2013
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30 May | • | Matsuyama City in Ehime
Prefecture, home town of famous haiku
(17-syllable poem) poet Shiki Masaoka,
set up suggestion box at Iyo Railway’s
tramway with best haiku to be posted in
tramcars every 2 months
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3 June | • | WWII Bell King Cobra fighter
crashed at Biggin Hill Air Show in London,
killing pilot
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4 June | • | UIC announced establishment in
2002 of international container railway
company using trans-Eurasia railway
connecting Europe and Asia
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9 June | • | Representatives of JR East, JR
West, JR Central and Japan Railway
Construction Public Corp., attended award
ceremony recognizing world’s best
transport designs and constructions held
in Trento, Italy
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10 June | • | French TGV Meditérrranée line
opened between Valence and Marseilles
to shorten 400-km journey between Paris
and Marseilles) to about 3 hours
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15 June | • | Diet passed law to fully privatize
JR East, JR West and JR Central by selling
all remaining government-held shares
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21 June | • | Oita Prefecture and JR Kyushu
jointly established Oita Kosoku Tetsudo
Hoyu third-sector company to construct
110 km/h high-speed section on JR
Kyushu’s Nippo main line
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22 June | • | Passenger train travelling from
Mangalore to Chennai in India derailed off
bridge killing 57 and injuring 250 people
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| • | American military truck stalled
on crossing in Vilseck, southern Germany,
hit by 2-car train killing truck driver, train
driver and train passenger
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24 June | • | Express and local trains on
Echizen main line of Keihuku Electric
Railway collided head on
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29 June | • | Simultaneous ceremonies
marking complete opening of first railway
in Tibet (1956 km) held at Lhasa and
Golmud in western territory of Qinghai
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| • | President of Liverpool Airport
announced name changed to Liverpool
John Lennon Airport when new terminal
opens in spring 2002
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4 July | • | Tupolev 154 of Vladivostok Avia
Airline crashed near Siberian city of
Irkutsk, killing all 145 people on board
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7 July | • | JR West announced timetable
revision due to opening of 182.7-km highspeed
section between Yasugi and
Masuda section on San’in main line
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12 July | • | National Railway Museum in
York, UK, opened permanent display of
Japanese Series-0 shinkansen donated by
JR West
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| • | According to the Japanese
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and
Transport, domestic passengers increased
to 92.87 million (+1.4% over previous year)
and international passengers to19.54
million (+9.6%) in FY2000
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14 July | • | Two suburban trains collided
head-on at Purkersdorf Station in Vienna
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19 July | • | Teenage boy drove 9-car
passenger train for 115 km in Uttar
Pradesh, India before railway bureau
deliberately derailed train to prevent headon
collision
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21 July | • | Eleven people including 9
children crushed to death on pedestrian
bridge at south side of JR West’s Asaka
Station on San’yo main line after fireworks
festival
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25 July | • | Japanese Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure and Transport predicted
approximately 363,500 people will visit
Japan for 2002 FIFA World Cup
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30 July | • | JR Central announced seat
reservation system enabling membershipcard
holders to reserve Tokaido
Shinkansen from mobile phones and
personal computers using Internet
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| • | Sightseeing plane crashed onto
glacier near Juneau, Alaska, killing all six
people on board
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