Some interesting metro facts (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

I just started to look into some and thought I’d share. Some are copy and pasted.

• Oldest metro from my findings is the London metro. The first stations were made in 1863.
• The NYC metro has the most metro stations with 472 stations (depending on who you ask).
• The deepest metro station is Arsenalna Station in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.
• The first metro in the US was in Boston in 1897.
• Bejing has the longest metro system at 815.2 kilometres (507 mi).
• The world's first metro system to be built solely for the use of religious pilgrims is the 18.1 kilometer long Al Mashaaer Al Muqaddassah Metro, which opened in November 2010 in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.
• One metro system in the world has been designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site. That is the Budapest Metro in Hungary which was designated in 2002. The system was opened in 1896 making it the second oldest system in the world.
• The metro system with the longest, single escalator in the world is situated at the Park Pobedy Station on the Moscow Metro in Russia which is 126.8 meters long and takes two minutes forty seconds to ride.
• The world's fastest metro system train is the Maglev or Transrapid which runs by way of magnetic levitation on the Longyang Road to Pudong International Airport line of the Shanghai Metro in China.

 

[Belgizen]

During WW2, the metro lines were used as a safe storage space to protect art from air raids in London.

 

[Ahsoka]

During WW2, the metro lines were used as a safe storage space to protect art from air raids in London.

Not quite a metro but in Berlin art was stored with anti aircraft bunkers for similar reasons.

 

[Belgizen]

Not quite a metro but in Berlin art was stored with anti aircraft bunkers for similar reasons.

ooohhhh yup true

 

[Soogi]

The metro system with the longest, single escalator in the world is situated at the Park Pobedy Station on the Moscow Metro in Russia which is 126.8 meters long and takes two minutes forty seconds to ride.

i remember taking that escalator when i visited my aunt and telling her wow this is insanely long; i wasnt aware it actually is the longest in the world

 

[Ahsoka]

i remember taking that escalator when i visited my aunt and telling her wow this is insanely long; i wasnt aware it actually is the longest in the world

There are some long ones in Russia

 

[Selfmate]

we are suddenly interested in the metro because? lol

 

[Ahsoka]

we are suddenly interested in the metro because? lol

A conversation yesterday with my family Where I was in a metro and we discussed another metro system.

 

[uran]

Metros are so awesome

 

[Selfmate]

A conversation yesterday with my family Where I was in a metro and we discussed another metro system.

riveting

 

[Ahsoka]

riveting

I was trashing on another one so it’s fun

 

[Ahsoka]

i remember taking that escalator when i visited my aunt and telling her wow this is insanely long; i wasnt aware it actually is the longest in the world

It seems that may be outdated. As of 2023 I think Russia made a station with an escalator 3 meters longer, also in Moscow

 

[Selfmate]

I was trashing on another one so it’s fun

you should have led with that...lol