CityRailTransit World Metro List

CityRailTransit
World Metro List

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In this section you will find an extensive list of the current world metro systems sorted by its opening dates. Although not all the systems included within this list would fit in the same definition of what a metro system is, one could say (at least) that they all include a metro-like service section within its rail transit network.

1890-1899	London \| LIVERPOOL \| CHICAGO \| Budapest
1900-1903	Paris \| Wuppertal \| Boston \| Berlin \| Alexandria
1904-1907	ATHENS \| New York City \| Philadelphia
1908-1919	Jersey City \| Hamburg \| BUENOS AIRES \| Newark \| Madrid
1920-1930	BARCELONA \| MUMBAI \| Vienna \| Rochester \| Tokyo
1931-1935	Osaka \| Moscow \| GLASGOW
1936-1958	Gothenburg \| Stockholm \| Toronto \| CLEVELAND \| Saint Petersburg \| Nagoya
1959-1966	HAIFA \| LISBON \| Kiev \| SEATTLE \| FORT WORTH \| Milan \| TBILISI \| Oslo \| Montreal
1967-1970	BAKU \| Rotterdam \| FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN \| Cologne \| LUDWIGSHAFEN AM RHEIN \| Mexico City \| Kamakura
1971-1972	Munich \| SAPPORO \| Nuremberg \| SAN FRANCISCO \| Yokohama
1973-1974	Pyongyang \| Prague \| Seoul \| Sao Paulo \| Lyon
1975-1976	Bonn \| Antwerp \| Kharkiv \| SANTIAGO \| Hanover \| MORGANTOWN \| Washington DC \| CHARLEROI \| BRUSSELS
1977-1978	Kobe \| Essen \| Amsterdam \| Tashkent \| MARSEILLE \| EDMONTON
1979-1980	RIO DE JANEIRO \| ATLANTA \| Hong Kong \| Bucharest \| Rome \| NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
1981-1982	YEREVAN \| CALGARY \| KYOTO \| FUKUOKA \| SAN DIEGO \| BEIJING \| Duesseldorf \| Helsinki \| MEMPHIS \| SAKURA
1983-1984	CARACAS \| LILLE \| BALTIMORE \| UTRECHT \| SAITAMA \| MIAMI \| Dortmund \| Minsk \| Gelsenkirchen \| Kolkata \| Volgograd \| MANILA \| TIANJIN
1985	Nantes \| KITAKYUSHU \| PORTO ALEGRE \| RECIFE \| Muelheim an der Ruhr \| BUFFALO \| PITTSBURGH \| BUSAN \| Stuttgart \| TUNIS \| Nizhny Novgorod \| SERFAUS
1986-1987	Vancouver \| Novosibirsk \| Zurich \| BELO HORIZONTE \| PORTLAND \| Kryvyi Rih \| Sacramento \| SENDAI \| DETROIT \| Cairo \| SINGAPORE \| San Jose \| Samara
1988-1989	CHIBA \| SYDNEY \| Valencia (Spain) \| LAON \| Istanbul \| JACKSONVILLE \| IRVING \| Bochum
1990-1991	POÇOS DE CALDAS \| GENOA \| CAMPINAS \| Komaki \| MONTERREY \| Yekaterinburg \| BIELEFELD
1992-1994	Manchester \| Duisburg \| KONYA \| LOS ANGELES \| Shanghai \| TOULOUSE \| Naples \| SAINT LOUIS \| Sheffield \| GUADALAJARA \| HIROSHIMA \| DENVER \| STRASBOURG \| ROUEN
1995-1996	Warsaw \| LAS VEGAS \| CHENNAI \| Bilbao \| Medellin \| Dnipropetrovsk \| TAIPEI \| DALLAS \| ANKARA \| Kuala Lumpur
1997-2000	Poznan \| Daegu \| Guangzhou \| Sofia \| TACHIKAWA \| Birmingham \| CATANIA \| Incheon \| SALT LAKE CITY \| BANGKOK \| TEHRAN \| MONTPELLIER \| Izmir
2001-2002	BRASILIA \| RENNES \| BURSA \| COPENHAGEN \| Porto \| DELHI \| CHANGCHUN
2003-2004	LIMA \| ROSTOCK \| Dalian \| INDIANAPOLIS \| NAHA \| ALICANTE \| HOUSTON \| NOTTINGHAM \| GWANGJU \| OEIRAS \| MINNEAPOLIS \| DUBLIN \| WUHAN \| LINZ \| The Hague \| Shenzhen
2005-2007	SAN JUAN \| CHONGQING \| Nanjing \| Kazan \| VALPARAISO \| ADELAIDE \| Turin \| DAEJEON \| VALENCIA (Venezuela) \| MARACAIBO \| PALMA \| CHARLOTTE
2008-2009	PERUGIA \| KAOHSIUNG \| LAUSANNE \| Krakow \| PHOENIX \| SANTO DOMINGO \| ANTALYA \| ADANA \| SEVILLE \| BERGAMO \| Dubai \| Kayseri \| Shenyang

KEY
LIGHT RAIL (mostly metro-like service sections)			NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY (usually, entirely segregated)
LIGHT RAIL (private right of way with metro-like service sections)			COMMUTER RAIL (freight or intercity services may coexist)
LIGHT RAIL (mainly private right of way with level crossings)			SUBURBAN RAIL (freight or intercity services may coexist)
LIGHT RAIL (private right of way, tramway sections may coexist)			REGIONAL METRO (usually, dedicated tracks - metro-like service)
LIGHT RAIL (sharing tracks with road traffic and pedestrians)			METRO (with level crossings)
TRAMWAY (sharing tracks with road traffic and pedestrians)			FULL METRO (entirely segregated)
RACK RAILWAY (usually, entirely segregated)			MONORAIL (entirely segregated)
FUNICULAR (usually, entirely segregated)			PEOPLE MOVER (entirely segregated)

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