On June 23, 1997, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide and operate the assets of the 11, 000-mile Consolidated Rail Corporation ( Conrail ), which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned corporation.

* CSX and Norfolk Southern acquired most of the Conrail freight rail assets in 1997.

Conrail was privatized in 1987 and in 1997 was jointly acquired by CSX and Norfolk Southern.

The two remaining Class I railroads in the East, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway ( NS ), agreed in 1997 to split the system approximately equally, returning rail freight competition to the Northeast by essentially undoing the 1968 merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad that created Penn Central.

In 1997, however, the two railroads, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway, struck a compromise agreement to jointly acquire Conrail and split most of its assets between them, with Norfolk Southern acquiring a larger portion of the Conrail network via a larger stock buyout.

The MEAC would find stability in membership with the addition of two HBCUs in Virginia, Hampton University and Norfolk State University in 1995 and 1997 respectively.

In 1997, Norfolk presented a proposal to bring an expansion hockey team to Hampton Roads.

Although passed as a reaction to the situation in the Northern Territory, the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 made similar amendments with respect to Australia's two other self-governing territories, The Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island, also preventing them from passing a law permitting euthanasia.

Having first stood for election in North Norfolk in 1992, when he dented the Conservative majority, he came close to a major shock in the 1997 general election when he reduced a Conservative majority of more than 10, 000 to only 1, 293 votes.

A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Broadland since the 2010 general election, having previously served as the MP for Mid Norfolk from 1997 to 2010.

At the 1997 General Election, Simpson was elected as the Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk with a majority of 1, 336.

Ryder retired from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, and was made a life peer as Baron Ryder of Wensum, of Wensum in the County of Norfolk.

He was Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk from 1997 to 2001, when he lost his seat back to Henry Bellingham of the Conservatives, whom he had defeated in 1997.

* Virginian-Pilot, The ( Norfolk, VA )-February 11, 1997

Baseball America twice ranked him among the Astros ' top ten prospects ( in 1992 and 1994 ); he was a three-time All-Star ( 1996 – 1998 ) in Triple-A ; and he won the International League's MVP Award in back-to-back years: 1997 as a member of the Mets ' Triple-A affiliate in Norfolk and 1998 as a member of the Reds ' Triple-A affiliate in Indianapolis.

Hubert Horace Lamb ( born Bedford 22 September 1913 – died Holt, Norfolk 28 June 1997 ) was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

He then joined the New York Mets organisation, managing the Norfolk Tides in 1997 and 1998.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East ( 1962, revised Bill Wilson 1997 ), pp. 256 – 260 ISBN 0-300-09607-0

Some of these groups, who ran restricted service licence ( RSL ) trial stations, included 106. 9 FTR-FM ( Fakenham-August 1997 ), Fakenham Community Radio ( April / May 1999 ), Wensum FM ( East Dereham-3 trials between October 1999 & June 2001 ), Central Norfolk Radio ( Fakenham-5 trials between April 1999 & May 2001 ), Escape FM ( Sheringham-July / August 2000 ) and Tindles own 87. 7 The Beach * ( North Walsham-Christmas 2000 & Holt, Norfolk-June 2001 ).

In 1982 the Norfolk & Western Railway was combined with the Southern Railway, another profitable carrier, to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation ( NS ), but it continued paper operations until it was merged into the Southern ( by this point renamed Norfolk Southern Railway ) in 1997.

Norfolk Jet Express was established in May 1997 by Norfolk Island resident and businessman Gregg Prechelt, who was both the Chief Executive and Chairman of the airline.

These were donated by Professor Fred Wendorf of Southern Methodist University in Texas, and comprise the entire collection of artefacts and environmental remains from his excavations between 1963 and 1997.

The 1997 Rolf de Heer film, Epsilon, also known as Alien Visitor, an alien in female form descends to Earth from Epsilon in the Southern Cross, and inspires an Outback traveler to better his planet.

However, several landmarks have been achieved in the fight against it in Latin America, including a reduction by 72 % of the incidence of human infection in children and young adults in the countries of the Southern Cone Initiative, and at least three countries ( Uruguay, in 1997, and Chile, in 1999, and Brazil in 2006 ) have been certified free of vectorial and transfusional transmission.

The First and Second Rounds were also previously split into Northern and Southern sections, but this practice was ended after the 1997 – 98 competition.

* 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao ' an International Airport, killing 35 people.

* 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

* Glenn, Gwendolyn, " American Visions ", Southern Secrets From Edna Lewis, February – March, 1997

* " Visions ( Southern Cross )", a song by Stratovarius from their 1997 album Visions

* Grimsley, Mark, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861 – 1865, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-59941-5.

Some of his other roles have reflected his socio-political interests, such as The Burning Season in 1994, My Family / Mi Familia in 1995, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca in 1997, and Southern Cross in 1999.

Following Operation Desert Storm, the 355 WG supported Operation Southern Watch during deployments to Al Jaber, Kuwait, in 1997 by deploying 24 A-10s, in 1998 by deploying 16 A-10s, and in 1999 by deploying 14 A-10s — all to ensure compliance of the 33rd parallel southern no-fly zone.

Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Levin was delivered into U. S. custody in September 1997, and tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

* LaVerne Butler, president of Mid-Continent University from 1988 – 1997 and Southern Baptist clergyman

The facility, originally the Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility opened September 1, 1997.

Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles / California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.

Southern Telecom, a telecommunications subsidiary of Southern Company was founded in 1997.

Uusimaa is confined within the boundaries of the administrative province of Southern Finland, and was until 1997 a province ( lääni )

** Southern Finland ( 1997 – 2009 )

Southern Illinois University 1997.

Southern Illinois University 1997.

Southern Illinois University 1997.

Southern Finland was a province of Finland from 1997 to 2010.

On September 1, 1997 the Uusimaa Province, the Kymi Province and the southern parts of the Häme Province were joined to form the new Southern Finland Province.