Events
January January 1 – Line 3 of the Cairo Metro extends from Kit-Kat to Rod El-Farag Corridor. – Campeche–Palenque section of Tren Maya opens to traffic. – Circular light rail of the Kaohsiung Metro extends from to and completes the loop line. – Taiwan Railway Corporation takes over operations of Taiwan Railway from the Taiwan Railways Administration. – BNSF Railway takes over operations of Montana Rail Link. January 7 – Bangkok MRT Pink Line opens between Nonthaburi Civic Center and Min Buri. January 8 – Line 18 and Line 50 of the Krakow tramway network extend from Papierni Prądnickich to Górka Narodowa. January 13 – Tri-Rail introduces shuttle service between Metrorail Transfer station and MiamiCentral. January 15 – Jiangnao Railway starts operations between Jiangjunmiao and Baishihu South Station. January 20 – Metro Line of Edmonton Light Rail Transit extends from the temporary NAIT station to NAIT/Blatchford Market. – Rete Ferroviaria Italiana introduces through service between Cirié and Alba and Cirié and Fossano via Line 4 and Line 7 of the Turin Metropolitan Railway Service. January 24 – Hubei Xincheng Express Line, a suburban train using the existing Wuhan-Huangzhou Intercity Railway, was put into operation. January 25 – Line 3 and Line 5 of the Daugavpils tramway network extend from Butlerova iela to Stropu ezers. January 27 – of Tram İzmir opens between Çevre Yolu and Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi. – Phoenix Valley Metro Rail extends from 19th Avenue/Dunlap to Metro Parkway via Northwest Extension Phase II. January 29 – Line M11 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Kağıthane to Gayrettepe. January 31 – Line S1 of the Wuxi Metro opens between Jiangyin Bund and Nanfangquan via through service on Line 1.
February
February 3 – Zhuhai-Zhuhai Airport Intercity Railway second phase opens between Zhuhai Changlong to Zhuhai Airport. February 17 – Yekaterinburg Tramway Network Line 9 extends to Luchistaya Ulitsa from Ulitsa Musorskogo. February 24 – Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Light Rail extends from Rodoviária to Terminal Intermodal Gentileza. – Line M1 of the İzmir Metro extends from Fahrettin Altay to Şehitlik. February 26 – Line T6 of Istanbul Tram opens between Sirkeci and Kazlıçeşme. February 29 – Tren Maya extends from Cancún Airport to Playa del Carmen.
March
March 4 – Line M1 of the İzmir Metro extends from Şehitlik to Kaymakamlık. March 5 – Warsaw tramway network extends from Reduta Wolska to Szpital Wolski. March 6 – Yellow Line of the Agra Metro opens between Mankameshwar Mandir and Taj East Gate. – Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System extends from Duhai Depot to Modinagar North. – Line 1 of the Kochi Metro extends from SN Junction to Thrippunithura Terminal. – Kolkata Metro: Green Line extends via disconnected branch from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade, Purple Line extends from Taratala to Majerhat, and Orange Line opens between Kavi Subhash and Hemanta Mukhopadhyay. – Aqua Line of the Pune Metro extends from Ruby Hall Clinic to Ramwadi. March 10 – Line M3 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Kirazlı to Bakırköy Sahil. March 11 – Circle Line of the Tashkent Metro extends from Quruvchilar to Qipchoq. March 16 – Line 4 of the Tehran Metro extends from Allameh Jafari to Ayatollah Kashani. – Hokuriku: Hokuriku Shinkansen extends from Kanazawa to Tsuruga, IR Ishikawa Railway takes over operations of the Hokuriku Main Line between Kanazawa and Daishōji, and Hapi-Line Fukui takes over operations of the Hokuriku Main Line between Daishōji and Tsuruga. – E8 Series Shinkansen trains enter service. – Line M5 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Çekmeköy to Samandıra Merkez. March 17 – Akçaray extends from Kanalyolu to Şehir Hastanesi. March 18 – Line M9 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Bahariye to Ataköy. March 19 – Line M11 of the Istanbul Metro extends from Kargo Terminali to Arnavutköy. March 23 – Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway extends from Senri-Chūō to Minō-Kayano. March 23 – European Sleeper extends to Prague from Berlin. March 27 – PNR Metro Commuter Line ends service. March 28 – Line 6 of Changchun Rail Transit opens between Shuangfeng and Changchun Movie Wonderland. – Line M1 of Bursaray extends from Emek to Geçit-Balat. March 29 – New line of the Dnipro City Express opens between Dnipro and Synelnykove. March 30 – Line A of the Great Train eXpress opens between Suseo and Dongtan. March 31 – Line 5 of the Nanjing Metro opens between Jiyindadao and Wenjinglu.
April
April 1 – Branch of Line 1 of the Shaoxing Metro opens between Huangjiu Town and Daqingsi. April 3 – Hellenic Railways reintroduces service between Athens and Thessaloniki. April 5 – Line T3b of the Île-de-France tramways extends from Marguerite Long to . April 8 – Lusail Tram Pink Line opens between Legtaifiya and Seef Lusail-North. April 24 – Slovenian Railways start passenger services between Villa Opicina and Rijeka. April 26 – Line 6 of the Qingdao Metro opens between Lingshan Bay and Hengyunshan Road. April 27 – 2 Line of Link light rail opens between South Bellevue and Redmond Technology. April 29 – Mesopotamian Express launches between Ankara and Diyarbakır. April 30 – Slovenian Railways: New services connect Ljubljana with Pragersko, Maribor, Graz and Villach.
May
May 1 – Line 4 of the Hefei Metro extends via branch from Beiyanhu to Shaomaigang. May 6 – RER E of the Réseau Express Régional extends from to . May 10 – Translink (Northern Ireland) closes Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station. May 15 – Line 3 of the Cairo Metro extends from Kit-Kat to Cairo University. May 20 – Services restart between Oslo and Trondheim after reopening of the mainline. May 21 – Amtrak introduces Borealis daily service between Chicago and St. Paul by extending one Hiawatha round-trip. May 21 – Talgo AVRIL trains enter service on the AVE network. May 26 – Pearl River Delta: Foshan–Dongguan intercity railway opens and the southern ring section of the Guangzhou–Foshan circular intercity railway opens. May 29 – ScotRail reopens Leven-Edinburgh service.
June June 3 – Pakenham line of the Melbourne rail network extends from Pakenham to East Pakenham. June 9 – DB Regio Franconia-Thuringia Express expands to Nuremberg. June 13 – Line 11 of the Paris Métro extends from to . June 14 – Rail service on the Baku –Agstafa route was significantly enhanced in June 2024 with the introduction of new, modern Stadler trains. June 14 – Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway opens for passenger service between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro. June 16 – Blackpool Tramway extends to Blackpool North railway station. June 19 – Line T1 of MetroCentro extends from San Bernardo to Eduardo Dato. June 22 – M4 of the Copenhagen Metro extends from Copenhagen Central to Copenhagen South. June 23 – Thomson–East Coast Line of Mass Rapid Transit extends from Gardens by the Bay to Bayshore. June 24 – Line 14 of the Paris Métro extends from Mairie de Saint-Ouen to Saint-Denis–Pleyel and from Olympiades to Aéroport d'Orly. June 28 – Line 1 of the Changsha Metro extends from Kaifu District Government to Jinpenqiu. – Line 5 of Ningbo Rail Transit extends from Xingzhuang Road to Luotuo Bridge. – Line D of the Porto Metro extends from Santo Ovídio to Vila d'Este.
June 29 – Line 6 of Suzhou Metro opens between Suzhou Xinqu Railway Station and Sangtiandao. June 30 – Red Line of the Kaohsiung Metro extends from Kaohsiung Medical University Gangshan Hospital to Gangshan.
July July 1 – Line 1 of the Tianjin Metro is extended from Donggulu to Shuangqiaohe. – Tri-Rail introduces express service between West Palm Beach and MiamiCentral. July 7 – Line T1 of the Luxembourg tramway extends from Lycée Bouneweg to Stadion. July 14 – Yanchep line of Transperth extends from Butler to Yanchep. July 17 – Line 6 of the Naples Metro reopens between Mostra and Mergellina and extends from Mergellina to Municipio. July 21 – Amsterdam tramway network line 25 extends to Uithoorn Centrum from Amstelveen Westwijk. – Service between Bangkok and Vientiane starts operation. July 22 – Catania Metro extends from Nesima to Monte Po.
August August 1 – Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway extends passenger rail service from Morogoro to Dodoma. August 8 – Line 3 of the Hanoi Metro opens between Nhon and Cau Giay. August 10 – Line 8 of the Seoul Subway extends from Amsa to Byeollae. August 11 – Caltrain soft launches electrification along the San Francisco Peninsula. August 12 – opens between Yuhuazhai and Hengye Dadao. – Line 13 of the Helsinki tramway network opens between Pasila and Nihti. – SunRail extends from DeBary to DeLand. August 18 – Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System extends from Modinagar North to Meerut South. August 19 – Metro North West & Bankstown Line of the Sydney Metro extends from Chatswood to Sydenham. August 20 – Passenger service between Annaba and Tunis restarts after 30 years of suspension. August 22 – Amtrak truncates Northeast Regional service from Newport News to Newport News Transportation Center. August 23 – Line 3 of the Foshan Metro extends from Zhen'an to Zhongshan Park and extends via disconnected branch from Lianhe to Foshan University. August 24 – Line D of the Grenoble tramway network extends from Les-Taillées-Universités to Gares. August 25 – Port Dock line of the Adelaide Metro opens between Adelaide and Port Dock. August 28 – Red Line of MAX Light Rail extends from Beaverton Transit Center to Hillsboro Airport/Fairgrounds. August 29 – Western Railway launches passenger service between Mumbai and Goa. August 30 – 1 Line of Link light rail extends from Northgate to Lynnwood City Center via the Lynnwood Link extension. Mimar Sinan station of the M9 Line is opened. August 31 – El Insurgente commuter rail extends from Lerma to Santa Fe.
September September 2 – Services restart between Lugano and Zurich after the reopening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. September 5 – Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro extends from Novomoskovskaya to Potapovo. September 6 – Hangzhou-Wenzhou high speed line is officially inaugurated for service between Hangzhou and Wenzhou. September 7 – Troitskaya Line of the Moscow Metro opens between Novatorskaya and Tyutchevskaya. September 10 – Nightjet begins service between Vienna and Rome. September 10 – Line 8 of Suzhou Metro opens between Xijinqiao and Chefang. September 11 – Zabok-Krapina railway is modernised. September 13 – Line FA of Tren Interoceánico opens between Coatzacoalcos and Pakal Ná. September 14 – Meizhouxi to Longchuanxi section of the Longyan-Longchuan high speed railway opens. – Great Western Railway restores service between Oxford and Bristol. September 15 – Frecciarossa launches service between Naples and Gorizia. September 16 – Red Line of the Ahmedabad Metro extends from Motera Stadium to Sector-1 and via branch to GIFT City. September 19 – North Central Railway launches passenger service between Prayagraj and Katra. September 20 – Tren Maya extends from Playa del Carmen to Felipe Carrillo Puerto. September 21 – Caltrain begins full electric service between San Francisco and San Jose. September 23 – Line 10 of the Brussels tramway network opens between Military Hospital and Churchill. – Line 2 of the Moscow tramway network opens between 3rd Vladimirskaya Street and Kursky. September 24 – Tequila Express resumes operations between Guadalajara and Tequila. – Casablanca Tramway: Line T3 opens between Gare de Casa-Port and Hay El Wahda and Line T4 opens between Parc de la Ligue Arabe and Mohammed Erradi. September 26 – Xi'an Metro: Line 5 extends from Matengkong to Yanminghu, Line 6 extends from Xi'anguojiyixuezhongxin to Xi'annanzhan, and Line 10 opens between Jingshangcun and Zhaohuiguangchang. September 28 – Tianjin Metro: Line 5 extends from Liqizhuangnan to Jinghuadongdao and Jinjing line opens between Jinghuadongdao and Tuanboyixueyuan.