# 2022 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2022.

## Events
### January

* January 1– Wuyi Tram [zh] 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 3 and 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 – Manila MRT Line 3 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 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 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.
* 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 (Huzhou–Hangzhou) 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 Irvine and Oceanside, 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 (formerly named Zagórze Petla) 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 Yuyuantan Dongmen (Yuyuantan Park East Gate) to Yushuzhuang.

## Industry awards
### North America
#### Awards presented by Railway Age magazine

* 2022 Railroader of the Year: Keith Creel (CP) and Patrick J. Ottensmeyer (KCS)