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The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California in the United States. It consists of six lines: four light rail lines (the A, C, E and K lines) and two rapid transit lines (the B and D lines), serving a total of 101 stations. The system connects with the Metro Busway bus rapid transit system ...
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
The next Metro Rail line, the rapid transit Red Line, opened on January 30, 1993, between Union Station and Westlake/ MacArthur Park station. [ 7] The light rail Green Line, the system's third line, opened on August 12, 1995 from Norwalk to Redondo Beach stations. [ 8] Metro Rail's next expansion occurred on May 22, 1996, when the Red Line ...
Early maps of the Metropolitan and District railways were city maps with the lines superimposed, [263] and the District published a pocket map in 1897. [264] A Central London Railway route diagram appears on a 1904 postcard and 1905 poster, [265] similar maps appearing in District Railway cars in 1908. [266]
The system is composed of 11 lines – Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, and Waterloo & City – serving 272 stations. [ 3] It is operated by Transport for London (TfL). Most of the system is north of the River Thames, with six of the 32 London boroughs in the south ...
The London Underground is the oldest metro system. This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes or U-Bahn. As of 6 March 2024, 201 cities in 62 countries have a metro system. The London Underground first opened as ...
The B Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2020) is a fully underground 14.7 mi (23.7 km) [ 1] rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between North Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles. It is one of six lines in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The Docklands Light Railway ( DLR) is an automated light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London and providing a direct connection between London's two major financial districts, Canary Wharf and the City of London. First opened on 31 August 1987, the DLR has been extended multiple times, giving a total route ...