January 18 – A fire starts on Aylmer Manor, one of the
Manor seriessleeping cars used by
Via Rail, forcing VIA to take the car out of regular service permanently.[1]
September 22 –
Richmond Vale railway line, New South Wales, runs last coal train to
Hexham, becoming the last non-tourist railway in Australia to use steam locomotives.[7]
A
passenger express from
Kuala Lumpur to
Singapore derails at high speed near
Johor Bahru, Malaysia, after bolts holding the underframe-mounted
air conditioning generator come off causing it to fall off and catapult the particular coach and the ones behind it off the rails. 12 people are killed in the worst accident in
KTM's history.
^Balkwill, Richard;
Marshall, John (1993). The Guinness Book of Railway Facts and Feats (6th ed.). Enfield: Guinness Publishing.
ISBN978-0-85112-707-1.