# 2024 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2024.

## Events
### January

* January 1
** – Line 3 of the Cairo Metro extends from Kit-Kat to Rod El-Farag Corridor.
** – Campeche–Palenque section of Tren Maya opens to traffic.
** – Circular light rail of the Kaohsiung Metro extends from Heart of Love River [zh] to Kaisyuan Park [zh] and completes the loop line.
** – Taiwan Railway Corporation takes over operations of Taiwan Railway from the Taiwan Railways Administration.
** – BNSF Railway takes over operations of Montana Rail Link.
* January 7 – Bangkok MRT Pink Line opens between Nonthaburi Civic Center and Min Buri.
* January 8 – Line 18 and Line 50 of the Krakow tramway network extend from Papierni Prądnickich to Górka Narodowa.
* January 13 – Tri-Rail introduces shuttle service between Metrorail Transfer station and MiamiCentral.
* January 15 – Jiangnao Railway starts operations between Jiangjunmiao and Baishihu South Station.
* January 20
** – Metro Line of Edmonton Light Rail Transit extends from the temporary NAIT station to NAIT/Blatchford Market.
** – Rete Ferroviaria Italiana introduces through service between Cirié and Alba and Cirié and Fossano via Line 4 and Line 7 of the Turin Metropolitan Railway Service.
* January 24 – Hubei Xincheng Express Line, a suburban train using the existing Wuhan-Huangzhou Intercity Railway, was put into operation.
* January 25 – Line 3 and Line 5 of the Daugavpils tramway network extend from Butlerova iela to Stropu ezers.
* January 27
** – Line T3 [tr] of Tram İzmir opens between Çevre Yolu and Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi.
** – Phoenix Valley Metro Rail extends from 19th Avenue/Dunlap to Metro Parkway via Northwest Extension Phase II.
* January 29 – Line M11 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Kağıthane to Gayrettepe.
* January 31 – Line S1 of the Wuxi Metro opens between Jiangyin Bund and Nanfangquan via through service on Line 1.

### February

* February 3 – Zhuhai-Zhuhai Airport Intercity Railway second phase opens between Zhuhai Changlong to Zhuhai Airport.
* February 17 – Yekaturinburg Tramway Network Line 9 extends to Luchistaya Ulitsa from Ulitsa Musorskogo.
* February 24
** – Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Light Rail extends from Rodoviária to Terminal Intermodal Gentileza.
** – Line M1 of the İzmir Metro extends from Fahrettin Altay to Şehitlik.
* February 26 – Line T6 of Istanbul Tram opens between Sirkeci and Kazlıçeşme.
* February 29 – Tren Maya extends from Cancún Airport to Playa del Carmen.

### March

* March 4 – Line M1 of the İzmir Metro extends from Şehitlik to Kaymakamlık.
* March 5 – Warsaw tramway network extends from Reduta Wolska to Szpital Wolski.
* March 6
** – Yellow Line of the Agra Metro opens between Mankameshwar Mandir and Taj East Gate.
** – Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System extends from Duhai Depot to Modinagar North.
** – Line 1 of the Kochi Metro extends from SN Junction to Thrippunithura Terminal.
** – Kolkata Metro: Green Line extends via disconnected branch from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade, Purple Line extends from Taratala to Majerhat, and Orange Line opens between Kavi Subhash and Hemanta Mukhopadhyay.
** – Aqua Line of the Pune Metro extends from Ruby Hall Clinic to Ramwadi.
* March 10 – Line M3 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Kirazlı to Bakırköy Sahil.
* March 11 – Circle Line of the Tashkent Metro extends from Quruvchilar to Qipchoq.
* March 16
** – Line 4 of the Tehran Metro extends from Allameh Jafari to Ayatollah Kashani.
** – Hokuriku: Hokuriku Shinkansen extends from Kanazawa to Tsuruga, IR Ishikawa Railway takes over operations of the Hokuriku Main Line between Kanazawa and Daishōji, and Hapi-Line Fukui takes over operations of the Hokuriku Main Line between Daishōji and Tsuruga.
** – E8 Series Shinkansen trains enter service.
** – Line M5 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Çekmeköy to Samandıra Merkez.
* March 17 – Akçaray extends from Kanalyolu to Şehir Hastanesi.
* March 18 – Line M9 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Bahariye to Ataköy.
* March 19 – Line M11 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Kargo Terminali to Arnavutköy.
* March 23 – Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway extends from Senri-Chūō to Minō-Kayano.
* March 23 – European Sleeper extends to Prague from Berlin.
* March 27 – PNR Metro Commuter Line ends service.
* March 28
** – Line 6 of Changchun Rail Transit opens between Shuangfeng and Changchun Movie Wonderland.
** – Line M1 of Bursaray extends from Emek to Geçit-Balat.
* March 29 – New line of the Dnipro City Express opens between Dnipro and Synelnykove.
* March 30 – Line A of the Great Train eXpress opens between Suseo and Dongtan.
* March 31 – Line 5 of the Nanjing Metro opens between Jiyindadao and Wenjinglu.

### April

* April 1 – Branch of Line 1 of the Shaoxing Metro opens between Huangjiu Town and Daqingsi.
* April 3 – Hellenic Railways reintroduces service between Athens and Thessaloniki.
* April 5 – Line T3b of the Île-de-France tramways extends from Marguerite Long to Porte Dauphine.
* April 8 – Lusail Tram Pink Line opens between Legtaifiya and Seef Lusail-North.
* April 26 – Line 6 of the Qingdao Metro opens between Lingshan Bay and Hengyunshan Road.
* April 27 – 2 Line of Link light rail opens between South Bellevue and Redmond Technology.
* April 29 – Mesopotamian Express launches between Ankara and Diyarbakır.
* April 30 – Slovenian Railways: New services connect Ljubljana with Pragersko, Maribor, Graz and Villach.

### May

* May 1 – Line 4 of the Hefei Metro extends via branch from Beiyanhu to Shaomaigang.
* May 6 – RER E of the Réseau Express Régional extends from Haussmann–Saint-Lazare to Nanterre–La Folie.
* May 10 – Translink (Northern Ireland) closes Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station.
* May 15 – Line 3 of the Cairo Metro extends from Kit-Kat to Cairo University.
* May 20 – Services restart between Oslo and Trondheim after reopening of the mainline.
* May 21 – Amtrak introduces Borealis daily service between Chicago and St. Paul by extending one Hiawatha round-trip.
* May 21 – Talgo AVRIL trains enter service on the AVE network.
* May 26 – Pearl River Delta: Foshan–Dongguan intercity railway opens and the southern ring section of the Guangzhou–Foshan circular intercity railway opens.
* May 29 – ScotRail reopens Leven-Edinburgh service.

### June

* June 3 – Pakenham line of the Melbourne rail network extends from Pakenham to East Pakenham.
* June 9 – DB Regio Franconia-Thuringia Express expands to Nuremburg.
* June 13 – Line 11 of the Paris Métro extends from Mairie des Lilas to Rosny–Bois-Perrier.
* June 14 – Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway opens for passenger service between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro.
* June 16 – Blackpool Tramway extends to Blackpool North railway station.
* June 19 – Line T1 of MetroCentro extends from San Bernardo to Eduardo Dato.
* June 22 – M4 of the Copenhagen Metro extends from Copenhagen Central to Copenhagen South.
* June 23 – Thomson–East Coast Line of Mass Rapid Transit extends from Gardens by the Bay to Bayshore.
* June 24 – Line 14 of the Paris Métro extends from Mairie de Saint-Ouen to Saint-Denis–Pleyel and from Olympiades to Aéroport d'Orly.
* June 28
** – Line 1 of the Changsha Metro extends from Kaifu District Government to Jinpenqiu.
** – Line 5 of Ningbo Rail Transit extends from Xingzhuang Road to Luotuo Bridge.
** – Line D of the Porto Metro extends from Santo Ovídio to Vila d'Este.
* June 29 – Line 6 of Suzhou Rail Transit opens between Suzhou Xinqu Railway Station and Sangtiandao.
* June 30 – Red Line of the Kaohsiung Metro extends from Kaohsiung Medical University Gangshan Hospital to Gangshan.

### July

* July 1
** – Line 1 of the Tianjin Metro is extended from Donggulu to Shuangqiaohe.
** – Tri-Rail introduces express service between West Palm Beach and MiamiCentral.
* July 7 – Line T1 of the Luxembourg tramway extends from Lycée Bouneweg to Stadion.
* July 14 – Yanchep line of Transperth extends from Butler to Yanchep.
* July 17 – Line 6 of the Naples Metro reopens between Mostra and Mergellina and extends from Mergellina to Municipio.
* July 21
** – Amsterdam tramway network line 25 extends to Uithoorn Centrum from Amstelveen Westwijk.
** – Service between Bangkok and Vientiane starts operation.
* July 22 – Catania Metro extends from Nesima to Monte Po.

### August

* August 1 – Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway extends passenger rail service from Morogoro to Dodoma.
* August 8 – Line 3 of the Hanoi Metro opens between Nhon and Cau Giay.
* August 10 – Line 8 of the Seoul Subway extends from Amsa to Byeollae.
* August 11 – Caltrain soft launches electrification along the San Francisco Peninsula.
* August 12
** – Xi'an SkyShuttle [zh] opens between Yuhuazhai and Hengye Dadao.
** – Line 13 of the Helsinki tramway network opens between Pasila and Nihti.
** – SunRail extends from DeBary to DeLand.
* August 18 – Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System extends from Modinagar North to Meerut South.
* August 19 – Metro North West & Bankstown Line of the Sydney Metro extends from Chatswood to Sydenham.
* August 20 – Passenger service between Annaba and Tunis restarts after 30 years of suspension.
* August 22 – Amtrak truncates Northeast Regional service from Newport News to Newport News Transportation Center.
* August 23 – Line 3 of the Foshan Metro extends from Zhen'an to Zhongshan Park and extends via disconnected branch from Lianhe to Foshan University.
* August 24 – Line D of the Grenoble tramway network extends from Les-Taillées-Universités to Gares.
* August 25 – Port Dock line of the Adelaide Metro opens between Adelaide and Port Dock.
* August 28 – Red Line of MAX Light Rail extends from Beaverton Transit Center to Hillsboro Airport/Fairgrounds.
* August 29 – Western Railway launches passenger service between Mumbai and Goa.
* August 30
** – 1 Line of Link light rail extends from Northgate to Lynnwood City Center via the Lynnwood Link extension.
** Mimar Sinan station of the M9 Line is opened.
* August 31 – El Insurgente commuter rail extends from Lerma to Santa Fe.

### September

* September 2 – Services restart between Lugano and Zurich after the reopening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
* September 5 – Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro extends from Novomoskovskaya to Potapovo.
* September 6 – Hangzhou-Wenzhou high speed line is officially inaugurated for service between Hangzhou and Wenzhou.
* September 7 – Troitskaya Line of the Moscow Metro opens between Novatorskaya and Tyutchevskaya.
* September 10 – Nightjet begins service between Vienna and Rome.
* September 10 – Line 8 of Suzhou Rail Transit opens between Xijinqiao and Chefang.
* September 13 – Line FA of Tren Interoceánico opens between Palenque and Coatzacoalcos.
* September 14
** – Meizhouxi to Longchuanxi section of the Longyan-Longchuan high speed railway opens.
** – Great Western Railway restores service between Oxford and Bristol.
* September 15 – Frecciarossa launches service between Naples and Gorizia.
* September 16 – Red Line of the Ahmedabad Metro extends from Motera Stadium to Sector-1 and via branch to GIFT City.
* September 19 – North Central Railway launches passenger service between Prayagraj and Katra.
* September 20 – Tren Maya extends from Playa del Carmen to Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
* September 21 – Caltrain begins full electric service between San Francisco and San Jose.
* September 23
** – Line 10 of the Brussels tramway network opens between Military Hospital and Churchill.
** – Casablanca Tramway: Line T3 opens between Gare de Casa-Port and Hay El Wahda and Line T4 opens between Parc de la Ligue Arabe and Mohammed Erradi.
** – Line 2 of the Moscow tramway network opens between 3rd Vladimirskaya Street and Kursky.
* September 24 – Tequila Express resumes operations between Guadalajara and Tequila.
* September 26 – Xi'an Metro: Line 5 extends from Matengkong to Yanminghu, Line 6 extends from Xi'anguojiyixuezhongxin to Xi'annanzhan, and Line 10 opens between Jingshangcun and Zhaohuiguangchang.
* September 28
** – Tianjin Metro: Line 5 extends from Liqizhuangnan to Jinghuadongdao and Jinjing line opens between Jinghuadongdao and Tuanboyixueyuan.
** – L Taraval of the Muni Metro resumes service between Wawona and 46th Avenue and Embarcadero.
* September 29
** – Line S3 of the Chengdu Metro opens between Futian and Ziyang Bei.
** – Chongqing-Kunming high-speed railway opens between Chongqing West and Yibin East.
** – Purple Line of the Pune Metro extends from Civil Court to Swargate.
** – Copper Line of the San Diego Trolley opens between Santee and El Cajon Transit Center.

### October

* October 1
** – Line 7 of the Wuhan Metro extends from Hengdian to Huangpi Square.
** – Huinong South to Yinchuan section of the Baoyin high-speed railway opens.
* October 6 – Tren Maya extends from Nicolás Bravo-Konhunlich to Chetumal.
* October 7
** – Line 3 of the Mumbai Metro opens between Aarey Colony and Income Tax Office.
** – Egyptian National Railways reintroduces service between Al Ismailia and Bir-al-Abd.
* October 11 – Xuancheng–Jixi high-speed railway starts operations between Xuancheng and Jixi County.
* October 12 – Line 4 of the Milan Metro extends from San Babila to San Cristoforo.
* October 13 – Translink opens Belfast Grand Central for railway services.
* October 15 – Lagos RMT Red Line starts operations between Oyingbo and Agbado.
* October 18 – Line U5 of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn extends from Leinfelden Bahnhof to Leinfelden Neuer Markt.
* October 21 – Tianjin–Weifang–Yantai high-speed railway starts operations between Weifang North and Yantai South.
* October 29
** – Adaray opens between Adapazarı and Arifiye .
** – Warsaw tramway network: Line 14 opens between Frodo Ave and Miasteczko Wilanów, Line 16 opens between Spacerowa and Miasteczko Wilanów.

### November

* November 1
** 2 years after opening the first high-speed railway in Serbia, Novi Sad railway station canopy collapsed, killing 15 people. It had a strong impact on society, bringing Serbian prime minister to resign a few months later.
** – Guangzhou Metro Line 3 extends to Haibang from Panyu Square.
** – Macau LRT Seac Pai Van Line starts operations between Union Hospital and Seac Pai Van.
* November 2 – Korail: The Seohae Line extends from Hongseong to Seohwaseong, and the Peotaik Line extends from Sukseong to Anjung.
* November 3 – Los Angeles Metro Rail: The C Line is rerouted to the new Aviation/Century station, and the southern section of the K Line between Aviation/Century station and Redondo Beach station opens.
* November 7
** – Bashteel railway station opens in Cairo, Egypt.
** – Bangalore Metro Green Line extends to Madavara from Nagasandra.
* November 10
** – The Trambesòs T4 line of the Barcelona Tram is extended from Glòries to Verdaguer in the first phase of its expansion along Avinguda Diagonal.
** – Amtrak temporarily combines the Capitol Limited and Silver Star trains into the Floridian train between Chicago and Miami.
* November 16
** – LRT Line 1 extends from Baclaran to Dr. Santos as part of the first phase of the Cavite Extension.
** – Sanya to Ledong Tourist Railway opened from Sanya to Yazhou.
* November 18 – Line T1 of Seville's MetroCentro extends from Eduardo Dato to Luis de Morales.
* November 22 – Line 3 of Jinan Metro extends from Tantou to Jichangnan.
* November 25 – The Tema-Mpakadan Railway Line opens. It is Ghana's first standard-gauge railway line.
* November 26 – Line 3 of Harbin Metro extends from Sports Park to Beima Road, completing the loop.
* November 30
** – Line 17 of Shanghai Metro is extended from Oriental Land to Xicen.
** – Line 6 of Zhengzhou Metro is extended from Changzhuang to Qinghua Fuzhong.
** – Thessaloniki Metro starts operations between New Railway Station and Nea Elvetia.
** – Jungbunaeryuk Line extends to Mungyeong from Chungju.

### December

* December 1
** – Line 7 of the Suzhou Rail Transit starts operations between Muli and Changlou.
** – Tallinn Tramway Network Line 2 extends to A-Terminal via the Old City Harbour route.
** – Riyadh Metro starts operations, with Line 1, Line 4 and Line 6 open for service.
* December 2 – Macau LRT Hengqin line opens between Lotus and Hengqin.
* December 3 – Line 3 of Xuzhou Metro extends from Gaoxinqu'nan to Yinshan in the south and from Xiadian to Zhenxingdadao in the north.
* December 8
** – Transperth Ellenbrook line opens between Bayswater and Ellenbrook.
** – Jingmen–Jingzhou high speed railway starts operations.
** – Ahmedabad Metro Blue Line extends to Thaltej Gam from Thaltej.
* December 10 – North East MRT line is extended to Punggol Coast.
* December 14
** – Deutsche Bahn reopens Frankfurt-Mannheim main line after five months closure.
** – Daegu Metro Daegyeong Line commences service between Gumi and Gyeongsan.
** – The Northumberland Line reopens between Newcastle and Ashington.
* December 15
** – Beijing Subway: Line 3 opens between Dongsi Shitiao and Dongbabei, Line 12 opens between Sijiqing Qiao and Dongbabei and Changping line opens between Xitucheng and Jimen Qiao.
** – RegioJet takes over Line S49 between Prague and Roztoky, and Line S61 between Prague and Úvaly.
** – Line S4 of the Nuremberg S-Bahn is extended from Dombühl to Crailsheim.
** – The Nördlingen–Pleinfeld railway reopens between Gunzenhausen and Wassertrüdingen after service to Nördlingen was suspended in 1985.
** – Tren Maya extends from Escárcega to Chetumal.
** – Riyadh Metro: Line 2 opens between King Saud University and King Fahad Stadium, Line 5 opens between Ministry of Education and National Museum.
** – Bratislava-Kyiv route starts operations.
** – Barcelona-Malaga Iryo high speed service starts operations.
** – Saltsjöbanan resumes operations on Line 25 and Line 26.
* December 16 – Paris-Berlin ICE high speed service commences.
* December 18
** – The new Mons railway station enters service.
** – Line 2 of the Qingdao Metro extends from Taishan Road to Sichuan Road (Qingdao Ferry Terminal).
** – Vinkovci – Vukovar line is electrified between Vinkovci and Vukovar.
* December 19
** – Ouigo Train Classique conventional service between Brussels-South and Paris Nord enters operation.
** – Chengdu Metro: Line 27 opens between Shifo and Shuxin Road; Line 8 extends north to Guilong Road and south to Longgang.
** – Aurora train resumes passenger operations between Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
* December 20
** – Parramatta Light Rail starts operations between Westmead and Carlingford, reusing the Carlingford Railway Line.
** – Line 1 of the Daegu Metro is extended from Ansim to Hayang.
* December 22 – Line 1 of the Ho Chi Minh City Metro starts operations between Bến Thành and Suối Tiên Terminal.
* December 26
** – Line 8 of the Hefei Metro starts operations from Beicheng Gaotiezhan to Yilijing.
** – Shanghai–Suzhou–Huzhou high-speed railway starts operations.
** – Line 8 of the Xi'an Metro starts operations between Shanmenkou and Shengtiyuguan as a loop line.
* December 27
** – Airport Link Line of Shanghai Suburban Railway starts operations between Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 to Pudong Airport Terminal 1 & 2.
** – Line 11 of the Wuhan Metro is extended from Wuhandong Railway Station to Jiang'an Road.
** – Line 4 of the Saint Petersburg Metro extended from Spasskaya to Gorny Institut.
* December 28
** – Line 11 of the Guangzhou Metro starts operations between Longtan and Chisha as a loop line.
** – Line S1 of the Guiyang Metro starts operations between Zaojiaoba and Wangchengpo.
** – Line 7 of the Nanjing Metro opens its central section between Mufuxilu and Yingtiandajie.
** – Shenzhen Metro: Line 3 extends to Pingdi Liulian from Shuanglong; Line 7 extends to SZU Lihu Campus from Xili Lake; Line 11 extends to Hongling South from Gangxia North; Line 12 extends to Songgang from Waterlands Resort East; Line 13 opens between Hi-Tech Central and Shenzhen Bay Checkpoint.
** – Line 11 of the Tianjin Metro extended from Dongjiangdao to Shuishanggongyuanxilu.
** – Huaixing intercity railway opens from Langfang North to Daxing Airport.
** – Guangqing intercity railway extended from Qingcheng to Feixia.
** – Troitskaya line of the Moscow Metro extended from Tyutchevskaya to Novomoskovskaya.
** – Line A of the Great Train eXpress opens between Seoul Station and Unjeong Center.
* December 29 – Zhengzhou Metro: Line 7 opens between Dongzhao and Nangangliu. Line 8 opens between Tianjianhu and Lumiao.
* December 30
** – Line 3 of the Minsk Metro extends from Kavaĺskaja Slabada to Slutski Hastsinets.
** – Line 3 of the Shenyang Metro starts operations between Nan Liguan and Lida.
** – Nanzhu high-speed railway starts operation between Nanning East and Yulin North.
* December 31 – Jidayuan high-speed railway opens between Ulanqab and Yuanping West.