* 2001 – Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.

* 2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.

Railtrack plc was placed into railway administration under the Railways Act 1993 on 7 October 2001, following an application to the High Court by the then Transport Secretary, Stephen Byers.

It was reported on 23 November 2001, that a further £ 3. 5 billion may be needed to keep the national railway network running, a sum disputed by Ernst & Young, the administrators.

* Hundertwasser " environmental railway station ", Uelzen ( Germany ), 1999 – 2001

Until 2001, there was a system of narrow-gauge railway built in the 19th and 20th centuries that ran from Hunedoara castle, near Zlaşti through a 747 and a 42 meter long tunnel through the mountain, and the breathtaking landscape of " Ţara Pădurenilor " ( Woodlanders ' country ) before arriving to Govăjdia.

In 2001 a replica of the town's old railway station was constructed in Leadore.

The Vernon Square campus in Islington, opened in 2001, is close to King's Cross railway station and only a few hundred yards from Dinwiddy House and Paul Robeson House, exclusive to SOAS students and owned by Sanctuary Management Student Housing.

* The climactic scene to the 2001 movie Rat Race was filmed in Ely, in and around the restored train depot of the railway museum.

The Cairngorm Mountain Railway is the highest railway in the United Kingdom since it opened in 2001.

By 2001, the railway had fitted its entire passenger fleet with the necessary equipment, operated by air brake pumps mounted on the locomotives.

The station and the railway that it served experienced several changes in management, being owned in turn by the London and Birmingham Railway ( 1837 – 1845 ), the London and North Western Railway ( 1846 – 1922 ), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway ( 1923 – 1947 ), British Railways ( 1948 – 1994 ), Railtrack ( 1994 – 2001 ) and Network Rail ( 2001 – present )

A memorial plaque to Gresley's achievements was unveiled at Edinburgh Waverley railway station in 2001.

The goods department of DSB, DSB Gods, was merged with Railion ( now DB Schenker Rail ) in 2001, and DSB now solely manages passenger rail service, including the operation of railway stations.

The railway truss bridge and causeway were removed in 2001.

This included buildings and industries like “ wind and watermills ; brewing and malting ; bridges ; canal and railway structures ; public utilities .” ( Neaverson 2001 )

The construction of numerous railway lines between 1875 and 1913 helped the local industry and the population grew to a maximum of 57, 973 people in 1910 ( compared with 53, 200 in 2001 ).

On 28 February 2001, a vehicle crashed off the M62 down an embankment on to a railway track, where it was struck by a passenger train heading to London.

The first major improvement that took place was in 2000 and 2001 when the PCRC upgraded the railway to handle large, intermodal shipping containers, along with passenger transport.

The is a passenger railway service in Japan which commenced in December 2001.

* 2001 August-Northeast China first electrified railway opens for business between Shenyang and Harbin

A funicular railway opened here in late 2001, running from a base station at 637 metres up to the Ptarmigan Centre, situated at 1097 metres, 150 metres from the summit of Cairn Gorm.

In 2001 Christopher Awdry wrote six stories featured in two books concerning railway safety, which were distributed to every primary school and library in the country.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

The Economy of Angola is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with the Economist asserting that for 2001 to 2010, Angolas ' Annual average GDP growth was 11. 1 percent.

A second German edition was published in 1913, containing theologically significant revisions and expansions: but this revised edition did not appear in English until 2001.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

In the United States, AES was announced by the NIST as U. S. FIPS PUB 197 ( FIPS 197 ) on November 26, 2001.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

Using Nevado Mismi, which in 2001 was labeled by the National Geographic Society as the Amazon's source, these scientists made new calculations of the Amazon's length.

In 2001, the population of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor was 2. 15 million ( 72 % of Alberta's population ).

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

American Airlines Flight 77 was a passenger flight which was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.

By 2001, the population had jumped to 206, 073, and it was 217, 988, in 48, 061 families, according to 2006 census.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

Ernest Pletch pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in June 2001.

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

In 2001, the team was led by two of the most dominant pitchers in all of baseball: Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Aḥmad Šāh Mas ' ūd ; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001 ) was a political and military leader in Afghanistan.

He was assassinated on September 9, 2001.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.