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Events

January events

  • January 13 – The 1982 Washington Metro train derailment involves an Orange Line train in Downtown Washington, D.C. in the United States and kills three people.
  • January 26 – The Palace on Wheels luxury train begins to run on Indian Railways.
  • January 27 – The Bouhalouane train crash in Algeria kills 131 people.

March events

  • March 16 – An extension of the Namboku Subway Line in Sapporo, Japan, opens for service between Shin-Sapporo Station and Shiroishi Station.

April events

  • April 1 &ndash; most rail operations in New Zealand of the Government-owned railways were transferred from the New Zealand Railways Department to the New Zealand Railways Corporation.
  • April 6 – Opening of the Wells and Walsingham Light Railway in Norfolk, England, at probably the longest public gauge miniature railway in the world.

May events

  • The last freight trains passed over the Dumbarton Cut-off.

June events

  • June 23 – The Tōhoku Shinkansen line in Japan opens between Omiya (near Tokyo) and Morioka.
  • June 25 – Opening of the Furka (Base) Tunnel () on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp Bahn in Switzerland between Oberwald and Realp.

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.

August events

  • August 2 – Helsinki Metro opens in Finland, the World's most northern metro.

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.
  • September 19 &ndash; Final day of PCC streetcar operation in San Francisco before all routes began full time Muni Metro light rail services through the Market Street subway.
  • September 21 &ndash; Takabata Station in Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is opened.

October events

  • October 23 – The first of 46 new 85-foot stainless steel electric multiple unit cars (1-46) built by Nippon-Sharyo of Nagoya, Japan are placed in service on the South Shore Commuter Line by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District. These cars replaced Insull-era equipment dating back to 1926.

November events

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