All Metro articles – Page 10
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Kolkata Metro
Opened 1984; India’s first metro. Four lines, serving 48 stations. See Kolkata network map. Line 1, operated as a division of Indian Railways (West Central Railway), was extended south from Mahanayak Uttam Kumar to Kavi Nazrul in August 2009 (5·9 km, 4 stations), and on to Kavi Subhash in October ...
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Kochi Metro Rail Ltd
Opened 2017, India’s eighth metro. Single route serving 25 stations. See Kochi network map. Work began on this elevated metro line in June 2013, with an initial section from Aluva southwest to Palarivatom opened on June 17 2017 (13·1 km, 11 stations). This was extended south to Maharaja’s College on ...
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Kunming Rail Transit (KMRT)
Opened 2012, China’s 17th metro. Six-line network serving 104 stations. See Kunming network map.Line 6 (18·2 km, 4 stations) opened on June 28 2012, linking the Kunming Changshui International Airport to East Coach Station; an 7·5 km (6 stations) extension into the city at Tangzixiang opened on September 21 2020. ...
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Kitakyushu Urban Monorail
Single monorail route opened 1985; 13 stops. This straddle monorail is operated by Kita-Kyushu city. It was opened from Heiwadori south to Kikugaoka on April 9 1985. A short extension north from Heiwadori to the mainline and high-speed station at Kokura opened on April 1 1998 (0·4 km, 1 stop). ...
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Kharkiv Metro
First line opened 1975; network comprises three lines with 30 stations. See Kharkiv network map. The first section of the Kholodnohirsko–Zavods’ka Line was opened on August 23 1975 from Kholodna Gora to Moskovs’kyi Prospekt (10·4 km, 8 stations). The second line was inaugurated with the opening of the Istorychnyi Muzei ...
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Kermanshah Metro
Single route under construction, running northeast-southwest (13 km, 13 stations), part elevated and part tunnelled. AddressKermanshahIranWebsitewww.kuro.ir Network data Gauge1435 mmLength(13 km - under construction)Electrification(13 km - under construction)
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Kazan Metroelectrotrans
Opened 2005, Russia’s seventh metro. Single north-south route, serving 11 stations. See Kazan network map. The initial section of the Central Line (Tsentralnya Liniya) from Kremlyovskaya southeast to Gorki opened on August 27, 2005 (6·8 km, 5 stations). Extensions opened since are southeast from Gorki to Prospekt Pobedy on ...
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Karaj Urban & Suburban Railway Organisation
Light metro opened 2023. See Tehran & Karaj network map.A heavy-rail regional route from Tehran was opened in 1999 and is operated as Tehran metro Line 5 (see that listing for details). In Karaj it is classified as Line 1, with four stations serving the city. Iran’s fifth largest city ...
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Jinhua Rail Transit
Two-line inter-urban metro opened 2022, serving 29 stations; China’s 45th metro network. Jinhua’s first phase plan is for two-line inter-urban metro routes, upon which some construction began on December 2016 with formal groundbreaking in July 2017. The Jinyi line opened on August 30 2022, running northeast from Jinhua to Qintang ...
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Jinan Metro
Opened 2019, China’s 35th metro. Three lines serving 40 stations. See Jinan network map. Work began in 2015 on the metro’s first phase of three lines. Line 1 from Fangte south to Gongyanyuan (26·3 km, 11 stations) began trial running in January 2019 with full service starting on April 1 ...
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Isfahan Urban Railway Organisation
Opened 2015, Iran’s fifth metro. Single route serving 20 stations. See Isfahan network map. Construction of a light metro began in 2001; tunnelling difficulties delayed the planned 2005 opening, but an initial segment of Line 1 from the north side of the city centre at Shohada northwest to Kosar Town ...
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L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd
Opened 2017, India’s 10th metro. Three lines, serving 57 stations. See Hyderabad network map. The metro’s Phase 1 network comprises three elevated metro lines (total 72 km, 64 stations) using CBTC signalling, built by public-private partnership Larsen & Toubro Metro Rail and operated by Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd. On November ...
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Hohhot Metro
Opened 2019, Hohhot is China’s 40th metro. Two-line network serving 43 stations. The capital of Inner Mongolia gained approval to build an initial two-line metro network in 2015. East-west Line 1 opened on December 29 2019 (23·2 km, 20 stations). It runs from the airport at Bayan in the east ...
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Hefei Metro
Opened 2016, China’s 29th metro. Five-line network with 162 stations. See Hefei network map. A 4 km test section of Line 1 completed in 2012 was extended to form the initial metro route running north from Jiulianwei in the southern Yandun district via the high-speed Hefei South station and city ...
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Harbin Metro (HRBM)
Opened 2013, China’s 19th metro. Three route network serving 66 stations. See Harbin network map. Line 1 from Harbin East station southwest to Harbin South station opened on September 26 2013 (17·5 km, 18 stations), extended south to Xinjianglu on April 19 2019 (8·6 km, 5 stations); two infill stations ...
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Hangzhou Metro (HZM)
Opened 2012, China’s 18th metro; 12-line network serving 257 stations. See Hangzhou & Shaoxing network map. Lines 1 & 5 are operated by Hangzhou MTR, a joint-venture with MTR Corp, whilst other lines are operated by Hangzhou Metro Corp. Line 1. Work began in 2006, opening on November 24 ...
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Guiyang Urban Rail Transit (GYURT)
Opened 2017, China’s 31st metro. Three lines, serving 82 stations. See Guiyang network map. The first section of Line 1 opened December 28 2017, linking Xiamaixi in the northwest with North high-speed railway station (12·9 km, 10 stations). This was continued south to Xiaomeng on December 1 2018 (20·2 km, ...