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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1982.

Events

March events

• March - The Tōhoku Shinkansen line in Japan opens between Omiya (near Tokyo) and Morioka.

April events

• April 6 - Opening of the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway in Norfolk, England, at 6.5 km (4 mi) probably the longest public 10+¹⁄₄ in (260 mm) gauge miniature railway in the world.^[1]

June events

• June 25 - Opening of the Furka (Base) Tunnel (15.4 km (10 mi)) on the metre gauge Furka-Oberalp-Bahn in Switzerland between Oberwald and Realp.^[2]

July events

• July 28 - Fire destroys the Harrisonburg, Virginia, offices of the former Chesapeake Western Railway, which had been merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1954.^[3]

September events

• September 18 - The second stage of Brisbane, Australia, Suburban Electrification is commissioned between Bowen Hills and Shorncliffe, and also between Roma Street and Kingston.

November events

• November 15 - The Joetsu Shinkansen opens for service between Ōmiya and Niigata, Japan.

Unknown date events

• Robert Krebs succeeds Alan Furth as president of the Southern Pacific Company, the parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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