World’s Most Impressive Subway Stations
1. Moscow’s Komsomolskaya Metro Station (Russia)
Komsomolskaya (Russian: Комсомольская) is a station of the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is located under Komsomolskaya Square, between the Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky railway terminals. The station was named for the workers of the Komsomol youth league who helped to construct the first Metro line.
Komsomolskaya was built using the cut and cover method, with construction beginning on 3 May 1933. Temporary bridges were built over the construction site to avoid disrupting traffic, especially the numerous tram routes in the area. To counteract the high water table, the station was built on 636 piles which were driven into the saturated soil.
2. Munich U-Bahn (Germany)
The Munich U-Bahn system is an electric public transport network (a metro or underground system) in Munich, Germany. It is operated by the Munich Public Transportation Company (MVG, “Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft”). The network is integrated in the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund, MVV) and interconnected with the S-Bahn system.
3. Stockholm Metro (Sweden)
The Stockholm Metro (Swedish: Stockholms tunnelbana) is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are seven lines numbered from 10 to 19, in three groups identified by a color: the Green, Red and Blue Lines. Each colour line has two or three numbered lines on shared sections through the Stockholm City Centre.
The metro system is owned by the Stockholm County Council through Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Operation was contracted to Veolia Transport until 1 November 2009, after which MTR Corporation took over.
4. Shanghai Bund Tunnel (China)
Built between the Bund and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Pudong, this Bund Tunnel is the first of its kind in China.Enjoy the ride with its kaleidoscope of laser graphics, colors and music.
The Bund is an area of Huangpu District in central Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East-1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. The Bund is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai. Building heights are restricted in this area.
5. New York City Hall Subway Station (USA)
City Hall, also known as City Hall Loop, was the original southern terminal of the first line of the New York City Subway, built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), named the “Manhattan Main Line”, and now part of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. Opened on October 27, 1904, this station underneath the public area in front of City Hall was designed to be the showpiece of the new subway. The station, designed by Heins & LaFarge, is unusually elegant in architectural style, and is unique among the original IRT stations. The platform and mezzanine feature Guastavino tile, skylights, colored glass tilework and brass chandeliers. Passenger service was discontinued on December 31, 1945, making it a ghost station, although the station is still used as a turning loop for 6 trains.
6. Chicago O’Hare Subway Station (USA)
O’Hare is the ‘L’ station at the northwestern terminus of the CTA’s Blue Line. It is a subway station with two island platforms serving three tracks, located at O’Hare International Airport, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. Trains are scheduled to depart from O’Hare roughly every 2-7 minutes during rush-hour periods, and take about 40 minutes to travel to the Loop. It is also the only CTA station without coordinates. The reason for this is that O’Hare Airport doesn’t line up with any streets in the city.
7. Dubai Metro Stations
The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. The Red Line is partly operational, the Green Line is still under construction, and further lines are planned. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere.[2] All trains and stations are air conditioned with platform edge doors to make this possible.
The first section of the Red Line, covering 10 stations, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 PM on September 9, 2009, by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai,[3] with the line opening to the public at 6 AM on September 10.[4] The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula.[5] More than 110,000 people, which is nearly 10 per cent of Dubai’s population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation[6]. The Dubai Metro carried 10 million passengers from launch on 9 September 2009 to 9 February 2010 with 11 stations operational on the Red Line.[7]
Once the 20 km Green line opens, the Dubai Metro will overtake the title of longest automated metro network from the Vancouver Skytrain, surpassing it by 3 km.
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