All Metro articles – Page 12
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Jaipur Metro Rail Corp Ltd (JMRC)
Opened 2015, India’s sixth metro. Single line serving 11 stations. See Jaipur network map. Test running on the first phase of Jaipur’s Pink line began in September 2013, with the line opened on June 3 2015 (9·6 km, 9 stations). From Mansarovar (location of the depot) in the southwest, the ...
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Guangzhou Metro Corp (GZMTR)
Opened in 1997, China’s fifth metro. Network of 16 lines serving 278 stations. See Guangzhou network map.Numerous extensions completed in 2010 for the Asian Games, including a people-mover (originally 3·5 km, 9 stations, now 3·9 km, 11 stations). On December 28 2013 the initial western segment of Line 6 opened ...
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Delhi Metro Rail Corp Ltd (DMRC)
Opened 2002, India’s second metro. Nine lines with 231 stations. See Delhi network map. Also see: Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon Ltd and Noida Metro Rail Corp for neighbouring networks. The Delhi network has been developed in phases, with smaller extensions. Phase I comprised the broad-gauge lines: Red (first section opened 2002), ...
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Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp (KRTC)
Opened 2008. Two lines, serving 37 stations; also single light rail line serving 35 stops, opened 2015. See Kaohsiung network map. KRTC is the construction and operating concessionaire for the Red and Orange metro lines and the Circular LRT. These concessions are awarded by Mass Rapid Transit Bureau, the city ...
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Hunan Maglev Transport Co
Opened 2016; single maglev route with 3 stops. See Changsha network map. Construction work began on this medium-speed maglev line connecting Huanghua Airport with metro and mainline rail services at Changsha Nan station in May 2014. Test running with three-unit vehicles began in December 2015 with partial opening on April ...
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Chongqing Rail Transit (CRT)
Opened 2005, China’s eighth metro; 11-line network serving 255 stations. See Chongqing network map.Construction of Line 1, an east-west heavy metro, began in the 1990s, and resumed in 2007 after 10-year hiatus during which Line 2 opened; the initial 14·2 km section from Shapingba east to Jiaochangkou in the city ...
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Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL)
Opened 2015, India’s 7th metro. Two lines serving 40 stations. See Chennai network map. CMRL is a special-purpose vehicle of the state of Tamil Nadu responsible for planning, design, implementation and operation of the Chennai metro. Construction of Phase 1 started late-2008 on the Blue (23·1 km, 18 stations) and ...
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Chelyabinsk Metro
Single metro line under construction. Work on an initial 4·5 km three-station segment of Line 1 began in 1993; in 2007 construction began on additional segments (total 8·2 km, 5 stations) extending from Prospekt Pobedy east across the river Miass to Traktorozavodskaya. Opening is not expected until 2025 or later. ...
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Changzhou Metro
Opened 2019, China’s 37th metro. Two metro lines serving 43 stations. See Changzhou network map Work on north-south Line 1 from Senlin Gongyuan and Nanxiashu (34·2 km, 29 stations) began in October 2014 with the line opening on September 21 2019. The line serves the central railway station and Changzhou ...
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Changsha Metro Group (CSM)
Opened 2014. China’s 21st metro. Six-line network serving 135 stations. See Changsha network map. Work on Lines 1 and 2 began in 2011. The first phase of west-east Line 2 opened on April 29 2014 from Wangchengpo to Guangda (22 km, 19 stations); a western extension to West Meixi Lake ...
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Chandigarh Metro Rail Corporation
In 2012 Delhi Metro Rail Corp submitted plans for a metro serving Chandigarh in eastern Punjab state. A first phase envisages a north-south Red line from Capitol to Aerocity (16 km) and an east-west Blue line from Sector 21 to Mullanpur (22 km) with a total of 30 stations. Start ...
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Catanzaro Metro
Work on an underground connection between Germaneto adjacent to the FS station southwest of the city and Dulcino on the Ferrovie della Calabria line from Catanzaro Lido (5 km, 3 stations) began in January 2017. A 12 km section of line from Lido to Città will also be upgraded to ...
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Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC)
FGC was created in 1979, bringing under common management several local railways in the Barcelona area. Part of its network serves as part of the Barcelona metro network (lines 6, 7 & 8) - see Barcelona network map. It also operates four funiculars (8 cars) and two Abt rack railways ...
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Cairo Metro
Opened 1987. Network of three metro lines serving 78 stations. See Cairo network map.A city-centre tunnel section opened on September 26 1987 extending Egyptian National Railways’ Helwan line north from Al Sayeda Zeinab to Al Shohadaa (formerly Mubarak; 4·2 km, 5 stations), creating metro Line 1. The link north onto ...