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A Tokyo subway train emerges from the tunnel as a commuter-rail train boards passengers at Ochanomizu Station. Asia's first cities to have subway lines were Tokyo in 1927 and Osaka in 1933. Other major Japanese cities with subway systems are Yokohama, Sapporo, Kobe, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Sendai.
The Tremont Street subway in Boston's MBTA subway system is the oldest subway tunnel in North America and the third-oldest still in use worldwide to exclusively use electric traction (after the City and South London Railway in 1890, and the Budapest Metro's Line 1 in 1896), opening on September 1, 1897.
Boston's subway was the first in the United States and is often called "America's First Subway" by the MBTA and others. [8] In 1897 and 1898, the Tremont Street subway opened as the core of the precursor to the Green Line. [9] In 1901, the Main Line Elevated, the precursor to the Orange Line opened.
The first Subway on the West Coast was opened in Fresno, California, in 1978. [19] The first Subway outside of North America opened in Bahrain in December 1984. [22] The first Subway in Canada opened in St. John's in 1986. [23] The first Subway in the United Kingdom opened in Brighton in 2006. [24]
The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, [1] making it the world's oldest metro system. [2] The Shanghai Metro is both the world's longest metro network at 896 kilometres (557 mi) and the busiest with the highest annual ridership reaching approximately 2.83 ...
The Tremont Street subway was the first rapid transit tunnel in the United States and had a 24/7 service. [4] The grade-separated railways added transportation capacity while avoiding delays caused by intersections with cross streets. [ 5 ]
New subway cars were also purchased: the R62 and R62A fleets for the A Division and the R68 and R68A fleets for the B Division. The R62 in particular was the first New York City Subway car class built by a foreign manufacturer. [240] These were all delivered between 1983 and 1989.
Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is known for his design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City Subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which became the first subway in America. [1]