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The following is a list of all urban rail transit systems in Latin America, ranked by passenger ridership. These kinds of systems are most commonly known as metro (or subway in English), but may also be known as subte, tren, or tranvía systems. Daily and annual passengers ridership figures in this chart are based on annual and daily (not just ...
As of 22 December 2024, 204 cities in 65 countries operate 891 metro lines. The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line, the City and South London Railway, opened in 1890, [1] making it the world's first deep-level electric metro system. [2]
Class H of the Berlin U-Bahn. The following is a list of metro systems in Europe, ordered alphabetically by country and city.Although the term metro (or métro, metró, metrosu, metropoliteni, or metropolitano / metropolitana in Southern Europe, or mietrapaliten / metropoliten in Eastern Europe) is widespread in Europe, there are also other names for rapid transit systems, such as subway ...
In Europe all significant Spanish systems now have overhead power supply. Modern Latin America urban rail also uses overhead wires, though with some important exceptions. Special group of bottom power supplied railways are rubber-tyred systems. In fact, it may be difficult to classify them beyond any doubt.
List of rail transit stations in the Greater Manila Area; List of Marseille Metro stations; MARTA rail; List of MBTA subway stations; List of Mexico City Metro stations; List of Miami-Dade Transit metro stations; List of Milan Metro stations; List of Metro (Minnesota) light rail stations; List of Minsk Metro stations; List of Metrorrey stations
The first section of this network (Plaza de Mayo–Plaza Miserere) opened in 1913, making it the 13th earliest subway network in the world and the first underground railway in Latin America, the Southern Hemisphere, and the Spanish-speaking world, with the Madrid Metro opening nearly six years later, in 1919. As of 2023, Buenos Aires is the ...
Subway is most commonly used in the United States and the English-speaking parts of Canada, though the term is also used elsewhere, such as to describe the Glasgow Subway in Scotland, and in translation of system names or descriptions in some Asian and Latin American cities.
The elevated viaduct of the Metro railway is the longest in Latin America, and was the longest in the world until it was surpassed by Wuhan Metro Line 1 in 2017. [ 7 ] Line 2 started operations on December 21, 2023 with the opening of its first 5 stations within Santa Anita district in the east of the city.