November 2006 in rail transport

November 1 - November 4

November 5 - November 11

November 10

:* The transportation officials of 17 Asian nations meet in Busan and sign the Trans-Asian Railway Network Agreement that authorizes the construction of a trans-Asian railway. Cosigners of the agreement include, in alphabetical order, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, the People's Republic of China, South Korea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tajikstan, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Twentyfour other nations also participated in the week-long conference.

November 12 - November 18

November 13

:* - 27 people are killed when a Metrorail train traveling at Faure near Somerset West, just outside Cape Town, South Africa, collides with a truck that had stalled on a barrierless level crossing. The truck, where all the fatalities were concentrated, was carrying at least thirty-three workers from a local vineyard. See also: 2006 Cape Town truck-train collision.

November 19 - November 25

November 26 - November 30

November 30

:* - Canadian National Railway (CN) extends the employment contract of E. Hunter Harrison, the railway's current CEO, for one year setting The New contract expiration date as December 31, 2009. His term as CN's CEO began on January 1 2003.