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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 ...
A geographic map of London's rapid transit service, known as the London Underground. Many cities across Europe have a rapid transit system, commonly referred to as a metro, which is an electric railway. The world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, was opened in London in 1863. It is now part of London's rapid transit system ...
The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, [1] making it the world's oldest metro system. [2] The Shanghai Metro is both the world's longest metro network at 896 kilometres (557 mi) and the Busiest with the highest annual ridership reaching approximately 2.83 ...
Partial map of the ten Pan-European transport corridors.The ten Pan-European transport corridors were defined at the second Pan-European transport Conference in Crete, March 1994, as routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the next ten to fifteen years.
Immersed tube tunnels in Europe (6 C, 3 P) P. Proposed tunnels in Europe (9 C) R. Railway tunnels in Europe (2 C, 1 P) Road tunnels in Europe (3 C) U.
The first long-distance hiking trail in Europe was the National Blue Trail of Hungary, established in 1938. The formation of the European Union made transnational hiking trails possible. Today, the network consists of 12 paths and covers more than 65,000 kilometres (40,000 mi), crisscrossing Europe.
For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. Now, London Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes to bring some clarity to the ...
No metro, but some long road tunnels, including Hvalfjörður Tunnel at 5.8 km (3.6 mi) and some longer, and the longest (non-road) hydroelectric tunnel in Europe, one of the longest tunnels of any kind in the world, at Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant at 39.7 km (24.7 mi)