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==Events== ;January 1 : * – ÖBB, the national railway of Austria, is reorganized into ÖBB-Holding AG, a holding company to manage subsidiaries ÖBB-Dienstleistungs GmbH, ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG (for passenger train operations) and Rail Cargo Austria AG (for freight train operations). ; January 3 : * – Kansas City Southern names Arthur Shoener, formerly a vice president at Union Pacific Railroad, as the new CEO of the holding company's Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas Mexican Railway divisions. () ; January 4 : * – Bombardier receives a contract from SNCF for 350 million euros to build 100 new regional trainsets. ; January 6 : * – Graniteville train disaster – A Norfolk Southern train carrying a few carloads of hazardous materials (including chlorine gas) collides with a parked train in Graniteville, South Carolina, causing 9 deaths and over 250 injuries. () ; January 7 : * – A passenger train and freight train collide head-on in Crevalcore, in northern Italy (near Bologna), on the single-track mainline between Bologna and Verona. () ; January 12 : * – General Motors announces that it has agreed to sell its Electro-Motive Division to a partnership led by Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners. () : * – Five cars of a CN freight train derail in Fort St. John, Manitoba (a suburb of Winnipeg), Canada; as one of the cars was carrying propane, the area is evacuated. The tank car remains upright and intact, so local residents are allowed to return fairly quickly. () ; January 17 : * – Two Bangkok Metro trains collide, injuring nearly 200 people. (), () ; January 18 : * – A station at the Milwaukee Airport opens on Amtrak's Hiawatha service. (), (), () ; January 24 : * – Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway introduces a new corporate logo that replaces the railroad's verbose name with ''BNSF Railway''. () ; January 26 : * – Glendale train crash – In what police initially call a suicide attempt, a Metrolink train in Glendale, California, (a suburb of Los Angeles) hits a car parked on a grade crossing and then derails into another Metrolink train and a parked Union Pacific Railroad locomotive; resulting in 11 fatalities and 200 injuries. (), (), () ; January 29 : * – Singapore's third LRT Line, Punggol LRT Line opened. : * – Meitetsu Airport Line, open between Tokoname and Centrair route, with Gifu-Meitetsu Nagoya and Centrair route of direct limited express to start. ; January 31 : * – Regular Metrolink passenger service is restored through Glendale, California, the scene of the previous week's Glendale train crash. () 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「January 2005 in rail transport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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