From 2000 the line was extended from Alice Springs to Darwin as a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer back ( BOOT ) project by the AustralAsia Rail Corporation.

Following a pre-1999 election commitment to consider the feasibility of introducing fast rail services to regional centres, in 2000 the government approved funding for the Regional Fast Rail project, upgrading rail lines between Melbourne and Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Traralgon.

A New York Times investigation in 2008 showed that more than 90 % of Long Island Rail Road employees who had retired since 2000 were receiving disability payments from the federal Railroad Retirement Board, collectively totalling more than $ 250, 000, 000 over 8 years.

** Bombardier Voyager ( British Rail Class 220 ), a non-tilting train built 2000 – 2001

Kentucky's most extensive rail trail conversion to date, the Muhlenberg Rail Trail opened October 20, 2000 and was named " Trail of the Month " by the Rails to Trails Conservancy in May 2004.

Kentucky's most extensive rail trail conversion to date, the Muhlenberg Rail Trail opened October 20, 2000 and was named " Trail of the Month " by the Rails to Trails Conservancy in May 2004.

The canal warehouse known as Rail and Titsworth Canal Warehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Brighouse Railway Station was reopened in 2000 and provides the town with access to the National Rail network.

* DB Schenker Rail Nederland in the Netherlands ( formerly NS Cargo, then Railion Nederland ) ( NS Cargo merged with Railion in 2000 )

In July 2000 Prism Rail was purchased by National Express.

In March 2000 the Strategic Rail Authority decided to reorganise the Valley Lines and Wales & West franchises, both being operated by National Express.

In March 2000 the Strategic Rail Authority announced its intention to relet the franchise from May 2003 with Connex and Govia the shortlisted bidders.

On 24 October 2000 the Strategic Rail Authority announced that Govia had been awarded the franchise and would operate it from May 2003.

The Wisbech branch is Network Rail property and is still classed as a fully functioning goods line, although the last goods service was in Summer 2000, so the Bramleyline Heritage Railway will lease the track from NR on a 99-year lease.

In July 2000 Prism Rail was purchased by National Express.

* Worcester Union Station ( MBTA Commuter Rail, Amtrak Lake Shore Limited ), Built: 1911 ( Rebuilt in 2000 )

These include Railtrack ( and now Network Rail ), which used Gill Sans for printed matter, the Church of England, which adopted Gill Sans as the typeface for the definitive Common Worship family of service books published from 2000, and the British Government, which formally adopted Gill Sans as its standard typeface for use in all communications and logos in 2003.

He was responsible for the Railways Act 2005 which abolished the Strategic Rail Authority, a creation of the Labour government under the Transport Act 2000.

From 11 March 2000, they were mostly replaced by the new 700 series Hikari Rail Star services, and were finally withdrawn on 21 April 2000.

JR West began operating the Hikari Rail Star service from the start of the new timetable on 11 March 2000.

When in 2000, proposals for a large-scale extension of Metrolink were announced by the government, these still did not include conversion of the Hope Valley line ; but subsequently, planning documents from Network Rail and from the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority have suggested that this route might be appropriate for tram-train operation, and as such it was suggested to the Department for Transport as a possible location for a national tram-train pilot.

Under the Transport Act 2000 the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising was abolished and the BRB's functions were transferred to the Strategic Rail Authority's wholly owned subsidiary BRB ( Residuary ) Ltd. With the dissolution of the SRA under the Railways Act 2005, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Secretary of State for Transport.

* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

* Hirshfeld, Alan and Sinnott, Roger W. ( 1982 ) Sky Catalogue 2000. 0, Cambridge University Press and Sky Publishing Corporation, 1st Edition, 2 volumes.

* In 2000 ICI sold its diisocyanate, advanced materials, and specialty chemicals businesses at Teesside and worldwide ( including plants at Rosenberg, Holland, in South Africa, Malaysia, and Taiwan ), and Tioxide, its titanium dioxide subsidiary, to Huntsman Corporation for £ 1. 7 billion.

In April 2000, René Harris, former chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, became president as he briefly assembled support in parliament.

Andrew Grove, co-founder and former CEO of Intel Corporation, offered his thoughts on internet privacy in an interview in 2000:

Raël founded Clonaid ( originally Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation ) in 1997, but then handed it over to a Raëlian bishop, Brigitte Boisselier in 2000.

The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.

* Cohen, Sam, Shame: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb, Xlibris Corporation, 2000, ISBN 0-7388-2230-2

In 2000, Straczynski returned to radio drama with The City of Dreams for scifi. com and an original 20-part radio drama series entitled The Adventures of Apocalypse Al for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that was to debut in 2007 but has not yet aired.

From 1970 to 2000 the administration of Belmopan was managed by the Reconstruction and Development Corporation, known as " Recondev.

The refinery was later bought by Valero Energy Corporation, a San Antonio-based oil company, in 2000.

The Mini is a small economy car that was made by the British Motor Corporation ( BMC ) and its successors from 1959 until 2000.

In 2000, USA Networks bought Canada's North American Television, Inc. ( a joint partnership between the CBC and Power Corporation of Canada ), owner of cable TV channels Trio and Newsworld International ( the CBC continued to program NWI until 2005, when eventual USA owner Vivendi sold the channel to a group led by Al Gore, who relaunched it as Current TV ).

The financial troubles that followed the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000 / 2001, led to the May 2003 restructuring of Marconi plc to Marconi Corporation plc.

* Tandy Corporation, a leather supply company which became the RadioShack Corporation in 2000

* 2000 Wind Clean Corporation, harnessing energy from wind power, is founded.

In 2000, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation ( GLC ) sued Monsanto for the $ 71 million shortfall in expected sales.

The company was acquired by American Homestar Corporation of League City, Texas in 1997, due to the declining manufactured housing industry the plant was closed on April 15, 2000, American Homestar Corporation subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy later in 2001.

In 2000, PECO merged with Unicom Corporation to form Exelon Corporation, which acquired British Energy's share of AmerGen in 2003.

In the mid 1990s, the Del Webb Corporation proposed a residential development roughly as large as Flagstaff, Arizona's eleventh largest city ( 2000 census ).

The Chalk Point Generating Station, owned by Mirant Corporation, which was sold to Mirant by the Potomac Electric Power Company ( PEPCO ) in 2000, is located adjacent to the town.

Grosse Ile resident John Karmazin, Sr., who lived on the island from 1926 until his death in 1977, invented the automotive radiator pressure cap, obtained more than fifty automotive-related patents, and founded the Karmazin Products Corporation which produced automotive and heavy construction equipment components in the city of Wyandotte from 1946 until 2000.