By month January events • January 16 – The
Tozai Line in
Kyoto is extended from
Nijo to
Uzumasa-Tenjingawa.
February events • February 27 • – Official opening of
Santo Domingo Metro. • –
National Express changes the name of the railway operating company
one to
National Express East Anglia as part of a company-wide rebranding exercise.
March events • March 9 • – The
Red line in
Kaohsiung opens for service. • –
Sprinter starts service between
Oceanside and
Escondido, California, reinstating passenger service on the
Escondido branch line. • March 15 – The
Osaka Higashi Line is scheduled to open in
Osaka, Japan; the opening was originally scheduled for 2006, but delayed due to problems acquiring land. • March 27 –
Heathrow Terminal 5 station opens in London. • March 30 –
Yokohama Municipal Subway's
Green Line is opened for regular operations. • –
Kolkata Metro is extended from
Tollygunge station to
Pranabnagar station.
April events • April 1 – The
Miki Railway Miki Line in
Japan, which connected
Yakujin Station in
Kakogawa and
Miki Station in
Miki, is closed. • April 26 –
FrontRunner, a new commuter rail service, begins running in
Utah. • April 28 –
Wrexham & Shropshire begin to run passenger services between London
Marylebone station, the
West Midlands,
Shropshire and north-east Wales. unit for
Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway June events • June 2 – An
unexploded bomb from
World War II is found near where the
District and
Hammersmith & City lines cross the
Prescott Channel, not far from
Bromley-by-Bow tube station, causing disruption to trains. • June 2–6 – AfricaRail 2008 Conference. • June 14 – Opening of the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Subway Line between Shibuya and Ikebukuro ().
July events • July 5 – Meeting between
Venezuela,
Colombia and
Ecuador regarding a proposed rail link for freight and passengers between the three countries, also connecting the
Pacific with the
Atlantic.
August events • August 1 • – China officially opens the
Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway line, the first in the world regularly to host trains traveling up to . • –
LNER-design Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado makes first official move under its own steam, the first main line
steam locomotive built in
Britain since 1960. , August 2008
September events • September 14 – The Orange line in Kaohsiung opens for service.
November events • November – Voter approval of
Measure M in
Los Angeles County, California, commits additional tax dollars to transit projects.
December events • December 14 – Final run of the original
0 series Shinkansen. • December 27 • – The first section of the new
Valley Metro Rail system, part of
Valley Metro in
Phoenix, Arizona, opened. • – The
Monkey Park Monorail Line in
Nagoya is abolished.
By season Summer events • – The project to rebuild and upgrade
Guiyang Southern Station to more than double its capacity is expected to be completed.
Unknown date events • –
Indian Railways expects to complete the conversion of its electrified section in
Mumbai from a 1,500
volt DC system to 25,000 volts
AC; this will make the Mumbai section's electrification consistent with the rest of Indian Railways' network. • –
Vietnam expects to complete construction on the
Hanoi–
Lào Cai railway line upgrade. • – The city of
Saint Petersburg, Russia, will begin construction of a new intercity light railway beginning with a section between
Baltiyskaya Zhemchuzhina and the
Obukhovo metro station. ==Accidents==