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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2007.
Events
January events
January 5 - The first public trains of Taiwan High
Speed Rail operate between Taipei and Kaohsiung, a
miles ( km) journey, in 90 minutes.[1]
January 7 - A Washington Metro train
derails near downtown Washington, D.C., sending 16 people to the hospital and prompting
the rescue of 60 people from a tunnel.[2]-
January 12 - Railway Age Magazine selects
Bill Wimmer, Vice President Engineering for Union
Pacific Railroad to receive the 2007 award for Railroader of the
Year.[3]
January 30 - The suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia is thrown into chaos as much of the fleet of new
Siemens Electric Multiple Unit trains
are withdrawn from service after a number of incidents of brake failure.[4]
February events
February 7 - At a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and
Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev sign an agreement authorizing construction of the new Kars-Tiblisi-Baku railway linking the
three nations.[5][6]
February
9 - About 2,800 train crew employees of Canadian National Railway (CN)
wage a strike action against the railway; the striking workers are members of UTU Canada, the Canadian affiliate of the United Transportation Union.[7][8][9]
February 13 - During a test run a TGV train reaches 553 km/h (343.75 mph) under test conditions with a shortened train on the LGV Est near
Passavant-en-Argonne (Marne), 190 km
east of Paris.[10][11]-
February 26 - The United States Federal Railroad Administration delivers its decision to deny a $2.3 billion loan request made by Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DME).[12][13][14]
March events
April events
- April
3 – The French TGV sets a new train speed
record. The train reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph).
-
April 7 – Weekday service begins on T Third Street
light-rail line in San Francisco, leading to massive delays in the city's Muni
Railway system. [15]
April
23 - Trial runs on 250 km long Eskişehir-Ankara part of
533 km long High-speed train line from İstanbul
(Turkey's largest metropolis) to Ankara (capital of Turkey) began.-
April 23 – Construction resumes on the Second Avenue
Subway in New York City, between 92nd and 95th streets.
- April
28 – The Orange Line of Montreal
Metro is extended 5.2 km to Montmorency in Laval.
May events
June events
June
8 - Last Orient Express through overnight service from Paris to Vienna runs.[16]- June
10 – The first section of LGV Est, a high-speed rail line, opens in France. This coincides with improvements to the German rail network to cut travel times from Paris to Eastern
France and Germany.
June 15 - Revenue freight traffic starts to use the Lötschberg Base
Tunnel in the Swiss Alps.[17]- June – $20m allocated for planning and land acquisition for the proposed Australian Inland Railway.
July events
July 1
– Kampac Oil of Dubai , as consortium leader, is awarded a construction and operation contract for a new railway line in Ghana connecting Takoradi kilometers ( mi) to Hamile. The contract, valued at $1.6 billion, also includes the rehabilitation of a line between Takoradi and Kumasi as part of the Ghanaian government's plans to connect to northern Ghana.[18]
July 15 – In Shanghai, platform-edge doors caused a fatal accident. A man tried to force his way onto a crowded train at the
station for the Shanghai Indoor Stadium, but failed. When the doors closed, he was trapped between the platform doors and the
train, leading to his death.[19]
July
18 – Metronet, holder of the maintenance contract for a majority of the London Underground lines, seeks authority of the Mayor of
London to go into Administration following a dispute about
responsibility for cost overruns on its contract.[20]
August events
30
August – Trubnaya station opened on Moscow
Metro.
September events
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October events
-
October 31 – MBTA Commuter Rail Greenbush Line opens in Massachusetts.
– Last
publication of the monthly OAG Rail Guide, successor to the ABC Railway Guide timetable of 1853.[21]- –
Grand Central Railway, a new rail operator in England, plans to inaugurate passenger services from London to
Sunderland.[22]
November events
November 7 – Minsk Metro Moskovskaya
Line gets extended to Uruchye.-
November 11 – West Midlands train operating
company franchise is taken over from Silverlink and Central Trains by London Midland (a Govia company) and the East Midlands franchise from Midland Mainline and
Central Trains by East Midlands Trains. National Express Group is the principal loser in these changes. Arriva Trains Cross
Country Limited (Arriva Group) takes over a revised Cross-Country franchise from
Virgin CrossCountry, branding services as CrossCountry.[23][24] The London
Overground rail franchise commences operation, effectively returning the lines involved to state control.[25]
-
November 14 – Channel Tunnel Rail Link is
completed.
-
November 26 – LYNX light-rail service
begins in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
- – Sretensky Bulvar station will open on the Lyublinskaya Line
of Moscow Metro.
December events
-
December 9 – National Express East Coast
(NXEC Trains Ltd) takes over the British East Coast
Main Line train operating franchise from GNER.[26]
- December 24 Moscow Metro Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line gets extended from Park Pobedy
to Strogino.
- –
SPRINTER light-rail service begins in San Diego
County, California.
- – Regular passenger-train
service begins in the Lötschberg Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps. [27]
- High-speed train service is expected to be extended from the current Madrid-Tarragona route to Barcelona.
- Wrexham, Shropshire and Marylebone Railway plan to run passenger services
between London, the West Midlands,
Shropshire and east Wales. This will serve one of the only
counties in England without a long-distance rail service.[28]
Unknown date events
- - The
Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad expects to complete
construction on the railroad's expansion into Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
- - High speed train service, using newly built ICE trainsets from
Siemens, is expected to open between Moscow and
Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- - SNCF
is expected to open new high speed train service between Paris and Frankfurt; annual ridership estimates at the time of
the service announcement in 2005 are as high as 1.5 million per year.[29]
- - SNCF
is expected to launch a new TGV Est service from Paris through Luxembourg, southwest Germany and Switzerland using new TGV Duplex
(double-decker) equipment built by Alstom.[30][31]
- - The Vossloh locomotive plant in Valencia, Spain, is expected to begin assembly of the new EMD Euro 4000 model
locomotive designed by Electro-Motive Diesels
for sales to European railroads.[32]
- Construction is expected to begin
on a new rail link between India and Bhutan.[33]-
- The
Lok Ma Chau Spur Line of the KCRC East Rail Line in
Hong Kong to connect the existing KCRC East Rail to the Lok Ma Chau border crossing between
Hong Kong and China is expected to be completed and opened in
2007.[34] 
- Optimistic opinions on the
Donetsk Metro construction estimate the first line of the system will open.- - The Eskişehir-Ankara part of 533 km long High-speed train line from İstanbul (Turkey's largest metropolis) via
Eskişehir to Ankara (capital of Turkey), is expected to be
opened in 2007 reducing the traveling time from 6–7 hours to 3 hours 10 minutes.
-
- The construction of a
railway linking Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan will start in the
second half of 2007.[35]
Deaths
August deaths
- August 9 – Walter Rich, Chairman of Delaware Otsego Corporation, New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad and Central New York Railroad (b. 1946).[36]
Industry awards
North America
| Group | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Norfolk Southern Railway | CSX Transportation | BNSF Railway |
| B | Kansas City Southern Railway | Canadian Pacific Railway's United States subsidiary | Long Island Rail Road |
| C | Florida East Coast Railway | Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad[38] | BNSF Suburban Operation in Chicago |
| S&T | Birmingham Southern Railroad | Conrail | Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis |
- Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
- 2007 Railroader of the Year: Bill Wimmer (UP)[3]
- 2007 Regional Railroad of the Year: (not yet announced)
- 2007 Short Line Railroad of the Year: (not yet announced)
United Kingdom
- 2007: (not yet announced)
References
- ^ Grauwels, Stephan. "Taiwan's High-Speed Train Debuts", Associated Press (reprinted by CBS), 2007-01-05. Retrieved on 2007-01-05.
- ^ Klein, Allison and Martin Weil. "Green Line Metro Train Derails; at Least 18 Hurt", The Washington Post, January 8, 2007.
- ^ a b Union Pacific Railroad (2007-01-12). Union Pacific Vice President-Engineering Bill Wimmer Named Railway Age Railroader Of The Year. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
- ^ "Soapy suds too much for trains in make-or-brake tests", The Age, 2007-01-30. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ "Saakashvili Speaks of Regional Railway, as Deal Signed", UNA-Georgia, 2007-02-07. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
- ^ "Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey sign agreement on new railroad", ITAR-TASS, 2007-02-07. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
- ^ Marowtis, Ross. "CN strike likely to continue over weekend", 2007-02-13. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
- ^ Pringle, Josh. "CN Rail Strike Won't Disrupt Service: Officials", CFRA, 2007-02-11. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
- ^ "CN strike challenged: Railway files beef with labour board", Winnipeg Sun, 2007-02-11. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
- ^ Alstom (18 December 2006). Alstom commits itself to the French very high speed rail programme. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
- ^ "French high-speed TGV breaks world conventional rail-speed record", Deutsche Presse-Agentur (reprinted by Monsters and Critics), 2007-02-14. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
- ^ United States Federal Railroad Administration (2007-02-26). FRA Administrator Denies DM&E Powder River Basin Loan Application Citing Unacceptable Risk to Federal Taxpayers. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
- ^ L.B. Foster (2007-02-27). FRA Rejects Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad's Loan Application. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
- ^ "DM&E loan denial's effect is uncertain", Post-Bulletin, 2007-02-28. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
- ^ "Passengers left in lurch by T-Third's rough start" Accessed 12 Apr. 2007
- ^ 'Hidden Europe' magazine e-news Issue 2007/15 (English) (2007-06-07). Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
- ^ Meillasson, Sylvain (August 2007). "Lötschberg Base Tunnel opens". Today's Railways Europe 140: 19-26.
- ^ "Kampac wins Ghana railway contract", Khaleej Times, 2007-07-01. Retrieved on 2007-07-05.
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/16/asia/AS-GEN-China-Subway-Accident.php
- ^ BBC News (18 July 2007). Metronet calls in administrators. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
- ^ Knowlman, Brian (Summer 2007). "What time's the next timetable?". National Railway Museum Review 120: 31-3.
- ^ Clinnick, Richard (May 10-23 2007). "Grand Central aims for October". Rail 576: 6-7.
- ^ Virgin loses Cross Country rail.
- ^ Haigh, Philip (July 18-31 2007). "HSTs to CrossCountry as Arriva wins £1.1bn deal". Rail 570: 6-7.
- ^ Transport for London (2006-09-05). Introducing London Overground - a new era for London Rail. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
- ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/passenger/franchises/icecf1/nxecawardedcontract|title=National Express awarded contract for growth on InterCity East Coast|publisher=Department for Transport}}
- ^ Trains News Wire (April 29 2005). Swiss complete digging Alpine tunnel. Retrieved on 4 May, 2005.
- ^ (May 2007) "Setback for new Wrexham service". Railway Magazine 153 (1273): 12.
- ^ Trains News Wire (May 24 2005). New high-speed line to link France and Germany. Retrieved on 25 May, 2005.
- ^ Alstom (July 26 2005). ALSTOM to supply 28 TGV trainsets and 8 TGV power cars to SNCF worth 550 million euros. Retrieved on 27 July, 2005.
- ^ Trains NewsWire (July 26 2005). Alstom to supply TGV trainsets and power cars to SNCF. Retrieved on 27 July, 2005.
- ^ Electro-Motive Diesel. Euro 4000. Retrieved on 1 December, 2005.
- ^ Kolkata Newsline (March 6 2006). India, Bhutan to start work for railway linkage by 2007. Retrieved on 7 March, 2006.
- ^ KCRC. KCRC New Projects. Retrieved on 20 March, 2006.
- ^ turkishdailynews (January 16 2007). Railway construction to start in second half of 2007. Retrieved on 16 January, 2007.
- ^ Grace, Tom. "Railroad chairman Rich dies", The Daily Star, 2007-08-10. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- ^ Association of American Railroads (2007-05-17). Railroad Employees Post Safest Year Ever in 2006. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
- ^ RailAmerica (2007-05-18). RailAmerica’s Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad Wins Harriman Award. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
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