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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1990.

Events

January events

• January 15 - VIA Rail discontinues Super Continental service and shifts The Canadian from its Canadian Pacific Railway to a Canadian National Railway route between Toronto and Vancouver, ending service to many cities and towns along the CP line, including Calgary and Regina.

February events

• February 4 - The last Edmondson railway tickets are issued for regular travel on British Rail, by the agent for Pembrey station in Wales.^[1]

May events

• May 6 - A heritage steam train hauled by 3801 was rammed at Brooklyn, New South Wales by a normal CityRail passenger train. Six people lost their lives in the accident.
• May 28 - An Alaska Railroad train derails 19 tank cars near Dunbar. Approximately 170,000 gallons of diesel and jet fuel are spilled; the cleanup efforts last nearly three weeks.^[2]

July events

• July 6 - Completion of the first MRT system in Singapore consisting of the North South Line and East West Line.

August events

• August 18 - Gråkallbanen, part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway is reopened after the city council permanently closed the tramway in 1988.^[3]

December events

• December 1 - Construction crews on the Channel Tunnel from both England and France break through the last amount of rock separating the two tunnels, forming the first land link between the two countries.
• December 31 - Minsk Metro's Avtozavodskaya Line opens between Traktornyi Zavod and Frunzenskaya.

Unknown date events

• David L. Gunn steps down from leadership of the New York City Transit Authority.
• Robert J. Ritchie succeeds William W. Stinson as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.
• The Gateway Western Railway begins operations over former Chicago and Alton Railroad tracks between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri.

Deaths

References

• (February 2002), Flags fall in corporate shuffles, Trains Magazine, p. 17.

1. ^ Farr, Michael (1991). Thomas Edmondson and his tickets. Andover: author. ISBN 0-905033-13-2.  
2. ^ Combs, John (1997-2005). "Alaska Railroad History". http://www.alaskarails.org/ARR-history.html. Retrieved 2005-05-27.  
3. ^ Aspenberg, Nils Carl (1995). På meterspor i Nidaros. Oslo: Baneforlaget. p. 30.