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Underground railway may refer to: The Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape; Rapid transit, a high capacity urban railway that uses tunnels; Mine railway, an underground rail system used in mining
The Berlin U-Bahn (German: [ˈuː baːn]; short for Untergrundbahn, "underground railway") is a rapid transit system in Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany, and a major part of the city's public transport system.
International Underground Railroad Memorial in Windsor, Ontario John Brown participated in the Underground Railroad as an abolitionist. British North America (present-day Canada) was a desirable destination, as its long border gave many points of access, it was farther from slave catchers , and it was beyond the reach of the United States ...
The first and still one of the greatest of the world’s metro networks, London’s first subterranean railway line opened in January 1863 – with steam trains running below the streets between ...
Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and 14 S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn, commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn ('underground railway'), are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while the S-Bahn or Stadtschnellbahn ('city rapid railway') are commuter rail services, that may run underground in the city center and have metro-like ...
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 term metro is not usually used to describe metro systems in German-speaking areas (Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland), instead using the term U-Bahn – a shortening of Untergrundbahn, meaning "underground railway" – and S-Bahn – an abbreviation for the German Stadtschnellbahn or just Schnellbahn (fast city train, fast train ...
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