January events • January 5 – The first public trains of
Taiwan High Speed Rail operate between
Taipei and
Kaohsiung, a journey, in 1:36 hours. • January 9 – Government of
Estonia buys back majority share in
Eesti Raudtee, the national rail operator, from private investors. • 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. • January 30 – The
suburban rail network of
Melbourne, Australia is thrown into chaos as much of the fleet of new
Siemens Nexas Electric Multiple Unit trains is withdrawn from service after a number of incidents of
brake failure.
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-Tbilisi-Baku railway linking the three nations. • February 9 – About 2,800 train crew employees of
Canadian National (CN) wage a strike action against the railway; the striking workers are members of UTU Canada, the Canadian affiliate of the
United Transportation Union. • 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. • February 18 –
2007 Samjhauta Express bombings: Terrorist explosions on the international
Samjhauta Express near the Indian city of
Panipat kill 68. • February 23 –
Grayrigg derailment: A
Virgin Trains West Coast services travelling from
London Euston to
Glasgow Central derails in
Cumbria in North-West England due to an inadequate points maintenance regime by
Network Rail; one elderly woman dies in hospital as a result of her injuries. • February 26 – The United States
Federal Railroad Administration delivers its decision to deny a US$2.3 billion loan request made by
Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DME).
March events • March 16 – Phase three of
Incheon Subway Line 1 opens from
Gyulhyeon to
Gyeyang. • March 18 – Opening of the
Sendai Airport Line in Sendai. • March 23 – Opening of the first phase of the
Airport Railroad Express (AREX) between
Seoul-Incheon and
Gimpo airports (). • March 25 – The rebuilt
Takahatafudō Station, serving the
Keiō Line and the
Tama Toshi Monorail Line in
Japan opens. • March 31 • Final day of operations on the Kurihara Railway in
Miyagi Prefecture. • Final day of railway operations on the Kashima Railway in
Ibaraki Prefecture; the company continues to operate as a holding company wholly owned by the
Kanto Railway Company. • Final day of operation on the
Nishitetsu Kaizuka Line between
Nishitetsu Shingu and Tsuyazaki.
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
San Francisco Municipal Railway. • April 17 – Phase 2 of
Daejeon Metro Line 1 opens for service between
Government Complex, Daejeon and
Banseok. • April 23 – Trial runs on 250 km long
Eskişehir-
Ankara part of 533 km long
High-speed train line from
Istanbul (Turkey's largest metropolis) to
Ankara (capital of Turkey) began. • April 23 – Construction begins on the
Second Avenue Subway in New York City between 63rd and 105th streets, a resumption of a decades-long project with existing segments elsewhere. • April 28 – The
Orange Line of
Montreal Metro is extended 5.2 km to
Montmorency in
Laval.
May events • May 17 – Official reinauguration of rail services between
Dorasan (South Korea) and
Kaesong Industrial Region (North Korea).
June events • June 8 – Last
Orient Express through overnight service from Paris to
Vienna runs. • 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. • June 28 –
Guangzhou Metro's
Line 4 extension connecting
Huangge to
Jinzhou opens. • 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 to
Hamile. The contract, valued at US$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. • July 1 – The first timetabled run of
N700 Series Shinkansen high-speed train. • 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.
August events • August 30 –
Trubnaya station opened on
Moscow Metro.
September events • September – Tunneling for
East Side Access in New York begins.
October events • October 1 – Ferrovías
Guatemala (subsidiary of
Railroad Development Corporation) suspends all operations. • October 15 – The
William Street tunnel opens as the first stage of
Transperth's
Mandurah line • October 31 –
MBTA Commuter Rail Greenbush Line opens in
Massachusetts. • – Last publication of the monthly
OAG Rail Guide, successor to the
ABC Rail Guide timetable of 1853.
November events • November 7 –
Minsk Metro Maskoŭskaja 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 is the principal loser in these changes.
Arriva CrossCountry takes over a revised CrossCountry franchise from
Virgin CrossCountry.
London Overground Rail Operations commences operation, effectively returning the lines involved to public control. at
St Pancras International following opening of
High Speed 1 • November 13 –
Strikes in France begin to disrupt
SNCF and
Paris Metro service. • November 14 –
High Speed 1 is opened with public passenger services into rebuilt
St Pancras International. • November 14 –
Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer (GDL, or German Train Drivers' Union) engages in a
national three-day strike against
Deutsche Bahn. • November 26 –
LYNX light-rail service begins in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
December events • December 2 – Two railway companies, the
MTR Corporation and the
Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation are merged. • December 9 –
National Express East Coast takes over the British
InterCity East Coast train operating franchise from
GNER. • December 11 – freight service to resume between South Korea and
North Korea. • December 12 –
NBS Mattstetten–Rothrist line converted to the first Swiss high-speed line, being a part of strategic plan Rail 2000 with detailed longer-term projects. • December 18 –
Grand Central, a new rail operator in England, inaugurates passenger services from
Sunderland to
London King's Cross. • December 19 – The
IE 22000 Class Diesel Multiple Unit enters service on Intercity routes in
Ireland. • December 23 – The
Mandurah line opens as an extension to
Transperth's rail network. • December 23 – The
Madrid–Valladolid high-speed rail line opens to passengers in
Spain, including the
Guadarrama Tunnel, the
fourth longest railway tunnel in Europe. • December 24 –
Moscow Metro Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line gets extended from
Park Pobedy to
Strogino. • December 29 –
Sretensky Bulvar station opened on the
Lyublinskaya Line of
Moscow Metro. • – Regular passenger-train service begins in the
Lötschberg Base Tunnel in the
Swiss Alps.
Unknown date events • – The
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad expects to complete construction on the railroad's expansion into
Wyoming's
Powder River Basin. • – Construction is expected to begin on a new rail link between
India and
Bhutan. • – JR Central phases out
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