CityRailTransit World Metro List

CityRailTransit
World Metro List

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 33333\| Liverpool 333\| Chicago 3333\| Budapest
1900-1903	Paris 33333\| Wuppertal 3\| Boston \| Berlin \| Alexandria
1904-1907	Athens 33333\| New York \| Philadelphia
1908-1919	Jersey City \| Hamburg \| Buenos Aires 333\| Newark \| Madrid 333333
1920-1930	Barcelona 333333\| Mumbai 3\| Vienna \| Tokyo 333333
1931-1935	Rochester \| Osaka \| Moscow \| Glasgow 33
1936-1958	Gothenburg \| Stockholm \| Toronto \| Cleveland 33\| Saint Petersburg \| Nagoya
1959-1966	Haifa 3\| Lisbon 33333333\| Kiev \| Seattle 333\| Forth Worth \| Milan \| Tbilisi 33\| Oslo \| Montreal
1967-1970	Baku 33\| Rotterdam \| Frankfurt am Main 33333\| Cologne 33\| Ludwigshafen am Rhein 333\| Mexico City 3333\| Kamakura 3
1971-1972	Munich \| Sapporo 33\| Nuremberg \| San Francisco 333333\| Yokohama 3
1973-1974	Pyongyang \| Prague 33333\| Seoul \| Sao Paulo \| Lyon 3333
1975-1976	Bonn \| Antwerp 33\| Kharkiv \| Santiago 333\| Hanover \| Morgantown 3\| Washington DC 33\| Charleroi 33\| Brussels 333
1977-1978	Kobe 333\| Essen 3333\| Amsterdam \| Tashkent \| Marseille 33\| Edmonton 33
1979-1980	Rio de Janeiro 3333\| Atlanta 33\| Hong Kong \| Bucharest \| Rome 33333\| Newcastle-upon-Tyne 33
1981-1982	Yerevan 3\| Calgary 3\| Kyoto 33333\| Fukuoka 333\| San Diego 333\| Beijing 333\| Duesseldorf 333\| Helsinki \| Sakura 3
1983-1984	Caracas 333\| Lille 33\| Baltimore 33\| Utrecht 3\| Saitama 3\| Miami 333\| Dortmund 33333\| Minsk \| Gelsenkirchen 3\| Kolkata \| Volgograd \| Manila 3 \| Tianjin 33\|
1985	Nantes \| Kitakyushu 3\| Porto Alegre 3\| Recife 33\| Muelheim an der Ruhr 333\| Buffalo 3\| Pittsburgh 333\| Busan 3\| Stuttgart 333333\| Tunis 33\| Nizhny Novgorod \| Serfaus 3
1986-1987	Vancouver \| Novosibirsk \| Zurich \| Belo Horizonte 3\| Portland 333\| Kryvyi Rih \| Sacramento \| Sendai 33\| Detroit 3\| Cairo \| Singapore \| San Jose \| Samara
1988-1989	Chiba 3\| Sydney 333\| Valencia (Spain) 3333\| Laon 3\| Istanbul 333333\| Jacksonville 3\| Irving 3\| Bochum 333
1990-1991	Poços de Caldas 3\| Genoa 3333\| Campinas 3\| Komaki 3\| Monterrey \| Yekaterinburg \| Bielefeld 33
1992-1994	Manchester \| Duisburg 3\| Konya 3\| Los Angeles 333333\| Toulouse 33\| Naples \| Saint Louis 3\| Sheffield \| Guadalajara 33\| Hiroshima 333\| Denver 333\| Strasbourg 33\| Rouen 3
1995-1996	Warsaw \| Shanghai \| Las Vegas 33\| Chennai 333\| Bilbao 333333\| Medellin 3\| Dnipropetrovsk \| Taipei 3\| Dallas 333\| Ankara 33\| Kuala Lumpur 333
1997-2000	Poznan \| Daegu 3\| Guangzhou \| Sofia \| Tachikawa 3\| Birmingham \| Catania 3\| Incheon \| Salt Lake City 33\| Bangkok 3\| Tehran 33\| Montpellier 3\| Izmir 33
2001-2002	Brasilia 3\| Rennes 3\| Bursa 3\| Copenhagen 33\| Porto 33333\| Delhi 3\| Changchun 33
2003-2004	Lima 3\| Rostock 33\| Dalian \| Naha 3\| Alicante 333\| Houston 3\| Nottingham 3\| Gwangju 3\| Oeiras 3\| Minneapolis 33\| Dublin 33\| Wuhan 3\| Linz 333\| The Hague \| Shenzhen 33
2005-2007	San Juan 3\| Chongqing 33\| Nanjing \| Kazan \| Valparaiso 33\| Adelaide 33\| Turin \| Daejeon 3\| Valencia (Venezuela) 3\| Maracaibo 3\| Palma 333\| Charlotte 3
2008-2009	Perugia 3\| Kaohsiung 3\| Lausanne 333\| Krakow \| Phoenix \| Santo Domingo 3\| Antalya \| Adana \| Seville

KEY (according to Maps)
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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