2007 IN RAIL TRANSPORT
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Events
January events
Main articles: January 2007 in rail transport
★ January 5 - The first public trains of Taiwan High Speed Rail operate between Taipei and Kaohsiung, a 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of Melbourne, Australia is thrown into chaos as much of the fleet of new Siemens Electric Multiple Unit trains are withdrawn from service after a number of incidents of brake failure.[4]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
Main articles: February 2007 in rail transport
★ February 7 - At a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan 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).[10][10][14]
March events
Main articles: March 2007 in rail transport
April events
Main articles: April 2007 in rail transport
★ 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 EskiÅŸehir-Ankara part of 533 km long High-speed train line from Ä°stanbul (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
Main articles: May 2007 in rail transport
June events
Main articles: June 2007 in rail transport
★ 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
Main articles: July 2007 in rail transport
★ 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 $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]
★ July 29 – The Mandurah railway line opens in Perth, Australia.
August events
Main articles: August 2007 in rail transport
★ – Trubnaya station is scheduled to open on Moscow Metro.
Future events
September events
Main articles: September 2007 in rail transport
★ – Grand Central Railway, a new rail operator in England, plans to inaugurate passenger services from London to Sunderland.
October events
Main articles: October 2007 in rail transport
★ – Last publication of the monthly ''OAG Rail Guide'', successor to the ''ABC Railway Guide'' timetable of 1853.[21]
November events
Main articles: November 2007 in rail transport
★ 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 CrossCountry franchise from Virgin Cross-Country, branding services as CrossCountry.[22][23] The London Overground rail franchise commences operation, effectively returning the lines involved to state control.[10]
★ 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
Main articles: December 2007 in rail transport
★ December 9 – National Express East Coast (NXEC Trains Ltd) takes over the British East Coast Main Line train operating franchise from GNER.[25]
★ – SPRINTER light-rail service begins in San Diego County, California.
★ – Regular passenger-train service begins in the Lötschberg Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps. [26]
★ - 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.[27]
Unknown date events
★ - Greenbush Line (commuter rail) opens for service in Massachusetts.
★ - 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.[28]
★ - 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.[29][30]
★ - 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.[31]
★ - Construction is expected to begin on a new rail link between India and Bhutan.[32]
★ - 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.[33]
★ - Optimistic opinions on the Donetsk Metro construction estimate the first line of the system will open.
★ - The EskiÅŸehir-Ankara part of 533 km long High-speed train line from Ä°stanbul (Turkey's largest metropolis) via EskiÅŸehir 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.[34]
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).[35]
Industry awards
North America
;2007 E.H. Harriman Awards[10]
| 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[10] | 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
;Train Operator of the Year:
★ 2007: (not yet announced)
References
1. Taiwan's High-Speed Train Debuts
2. Green Line Metro Train Derails; at Least 18 Hurt
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4. Soapy suds too much for trains in make-or-brake tests
5. Saakashvili Speaks of Regional Railway, as Deal Signed
6. Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey sign agreement on new railroad
7. CN strike likely to continue over weekend
8. CN Rail Strike Won't Disrupt Service: Officials
9. CN strike challenged: Railway files beef with labour board
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11. French high-speed TGV breaks world conventional rail-speed record
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14. DM&E loan denial's effect is uncertain
15. "Passengers left in lurch by T-Third's rough start" Accessed 12 Apr. 2007
16. 'Hidden Europe' magazine e-news Issue 2007/15
17. Lötschberg Base Tunnel opens, Meillasson, Sylvain, , , Today's Railways Europe,
18. Kampac wins Ghana railway contract
19. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/16/asia/AS-GEN-China-Subway-Accident.php
20. Metronet calls in administrators BBC News
21. What time's the next timetable?, Knowlman, Brian, , , National Railway Museum Review,
22. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6286904.stm
23. HSTs to CrossCountry as Arriva wins £1.1bn deal, Haigh, Philip, , , Rail,
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25. National Express awarded contract for growth on InterCity East Coast
26. Swiss complete digging Alpine tunnel Trains News Wire
27. Setback for new Wrexham service, , , , Railway Magazine,
28. New high-speed line to link France and Germany Trains News Wire
29. ALSTOM to supply 28 TGV trainsets and 8 TGV power cars to SNCF worth 550 million euros Alstom
30. Alstom to supply TGV trainsets and power cars to SNCF Trains NewsWire
31. Euro 4000 Electro-Motive Diesel
32. India, Bhutan to start work for railway linkage by 2007 Kolkata Newsline
33. KCRC New Projects KCRC
34. Railway construction to start in second half of 2007 turkishdailynews
35. Railroad chairman Rich dies
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