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. 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 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 113 series. Accidents 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. February 18 – 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, a terrorist attack on the Samjhauta Express near the Indian city of Panipat, north of New Delhi; sixty-eight people are killed. February 23 – Grayrigg derailment: A Virgin Trains West Coast services travelling from London Euston to Glasgow Central derails on