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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 ...
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 ...
The London Underground map serves as a playing field for the conceptual game of Mornington Crescent [343] (which is named after a station on the Northern line) and the board game The London Game. In 1999, Carlton Television premiered a regional game show (Greater London area only) also called Mind the Gap. [344]
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 ...
A sub-surface Metropolitan line train at Farringdon of 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 consists of three inner-city tunnels and above-ground lines in the suburbs. About 59% of the track length is underground. [citation needed] The network operates on a variety of right of ways typical of a light rail system, with core sections running underground in the inner city and some above-ground sections operating on street. [1] [5]
Tube maps stopped bearing their designer's name in 1986, when the elements of the map then had a very strong resemblance to today's map. [17] While the standard Tube map avoided representing most mainline services, a new variant of the map issued in 1973, the "London's Railways" map, was the first to depict Tube and above-ground mainline rail ...
The 1933 London Underground Beck map shows a Metropolitan line north of High Street Kensington and Mark Lane stations and a District line south of these points. [21] On the 1947 map, the Metropolitan and District lines were shown together in the same colour [22] and two years later in 1949 the Circle line was shown separately on the map. [23]