Rapid transit
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Rapid transit, mass rapid transit or rail rapid transit and commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A grade separated rapid t
A Seoul Metro Class 2000 series 10-car EMU set 2x09 leaving Hanyang University Station
A R211 A train at 80th Street station of the New York City Subway
A test train of London Underground 2024 Stock at Turnham Green on the Piccadilly line
A 07A02 train at Meilan Lake station on the Shanghai Metro
London Underground
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The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire in England. It is part of the network
Rapid transit
…first rapid transit system was the partially underground Metropolitan Railway which opened in 1863 using steam locomotives, and now forms part of the London Underground. In 1868, New York opened the elevated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, initially a cable-hauled line using stationary steam engines. The term…
The name "Tube" comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile (deep tube) trains travel. Northern line 1995 Stock train approaching Hendon Central.
A sub-surface Metropolitan line S8 Stock train at Amersham
Sign on wall beside Marylebone Road beyond station entrance
The Metropolitan Railway opened in 1863 using GWR broad-gauge locomotives.