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January 18 - Australia experiences its worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train. (see Granville railway disaster)

May events

May - Auto-Train Corporation launches a second Auto Train, this time between Louisville, Kentucky and Sanford, Florida.

September events

September - The second Auto Train route to Louisville, Kentucky is discontinued due to heavy financial losses.

Unknown date events

The Glasgow Subway shuts down for a complete system overhaul.

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1978 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (352 words)
	This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1978.
	March - Pacific Fruit Express dissolves, its fleet of refrigerator cars is distributed between Southern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad.
	October 29 - VIA Rail assumes all passenger train operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Canada.

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