UrbanRail.Net - News 2005

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14 March 2006 - Parma page added

20 Nov 2005 - Valparaíso page added

13 Sept - photos of all Kiev stations

2 July - Gothenburg (Göteborg) page added

12 June - Wuhan map

5 June - Málaga page added

24 Jan 2004 - Name Change from metroPlanet to UrbanRail.Net

Christoph Groneck:
KÖLN/BONN STADTBAHN ALBUM
The Cologne/Bonn Light Rail Network

Robert Schwandl:
HANNOVER STADTBAHN ALBUM

Ch. Groneck, P. Lohkemper, R. Schwandl:
RHEIN-RUHR STADTBAHN ALBUM 1

Robert Schwandl:
HAMBURG U-BAHN & S-BAHN ALBUM

Robert Schwandl:
METROS IN SCANDINAVIA

Robert Schwandl's

BERLIN S-BAHN ALBUM

Robert Schwandl's

BERLIN U-BAHN ALBUM

04 Mar -- Kyiv -- Line 3 Vyrlitsa station added

02 Mar -- Santiago -- Line 4 Grecia - Vicente Valdés

04 Feb -- Turin -- M1 Fermi - XVIII Dicembre NEW METRO!

29 Jan - Bochum - Bochumer Verein/Jahrhunderthalle - Lohring (tram tunnel)

15 Jan -- Singapore -- NEL Buangkok station added

06 Jan -- Vancouver -- Millennium Line Commercial Drive - VCC-Clark

01 Jan -- Edmonton -- University - Health Sciences

2005:

31 Dec -- Shanghai -- M4 Da Mu Qiao Road - Lan Cun Road

31 Dec -- Delhi -- Line 3 Barakhamba - Dwarka

26 Dec -- Guangzhou -- Line 2 Pazhou - Wanshengwei

26 Dec -- Guangzhou -- Line 3 Guangzhou Dongzhan - Kecun

26 Dec -- Guangzhou -- Line 4 Wanshengwei - Xinzao

19 Dec -- Milan -- Line 1 Pero station

11 Dec -- Newcastle -- Northumberland Park station

02 Dec -- London -- DLR Canning Town - King George V

30 Nov -- Santiago -- Line 4 Tobalada - Grecia & Vicente Valdés - Pl. Puente Alto

25 Nov -- Santiago -- Line 2 Cerro Blanco - Einstein

07 Nov -- Minsk -- Line 2 Pushkinskaya - Kamennaya Gorka (3.9 km)

18 Oct -- Daegu -- Line 2 Munyang - Sawol (29 km)

03 Oct -- Valencia -- Line 5 Bailén station added

17 Sept -- Porto -- Line D Pólo Universitário - Câmara de Gaia (5.7 km)

14 Sept -- Milan -- Line 1 Molino Dorino - Rho Fiera

10 Sept -- Moscow -- Line 4 Kievskaya - Delovoy Tsentr (2.2 km)

29 Aug -- Rotterdam -- Calandlijn De Tochten - Nesselande (1.5 km)

27 Aug -- Nanjing -- Line 1 NEW METRO!

27 Aug -- Kazan -- Line 1 Kremlyovskaya - Gorki (7.7 km)  NEW METRO!

23 Aug -- Kyiv -- Green Line Kharkivs'ka - Boryspils'ka (3.2 km)

1 Aug -- Hong Kong -- Disneyland Resort Line Sunny Bay - Disneyland Resort

16 July -- Stuttgart -- U2 Hauptfriedhof - Neugereut(1.8 km)

3 July -- Delhi -- Line 2 Kashmere Gate - Central Secretariat (7 km)

25 Jun -- Novosibirsk -- Line 2 Marshala Pokryshkina - Beryozovaya Roshcha

18 Jun -- Chongqing -- Monorail Jiaochangkou - Dongwuyuan

6 Jun -- San Juan -- Bayamón - Sagrado Corazón - regular revenue service

1 June -- Hong Kong -- Sunny Bay station added on Tung Chung Line

8 April -- Warsaw -- Dw. Gdanski - Plac Wilsona

2 April -- St. Petersburg -- Line 4 Staraya Derevna - Komendantskiy Prospekt

17 Mar -- Milan -- Line 2 Famagosta - Abbiategrasso

28 Feb -- Recife -- Linha Sul Recife - Imbiribeira (4km)

4 Feb -- Genoa -- San Giorgio - De Ferrari (except Sarzano)

3 Feb -- Fukuoka -- Line 3 Nanakuma Line Tenjin-minami - Hashimoto

29 Jan - Singapore -- Sengkang LRT West Loop & Punggol LRT East Loop

17 Jan -- Cairo -- Line 2 Giza Suburbs - Moneib

8 Jan -- Bilbao -- Line 2 Urbinaga - Sestao and Bolueta - Extebarri

8 Jan -- Copenhagen -- S-tog Ringline Flintholm - Danshøj - Ny Ellebjerg

2004:

28 Dec -- Shenzhen -- Line 1 & Line 4 (except Huanggang station)

28 Dec -- Shanghai -- Line 1 Shanghai Railway Station - Gong Fu Xin Cun

22 Dec -- Santiago -- Line 2 Lo Ovalle - La Cisterna (2.3km)

21 Dec -- Hong Kong -- Ma On Shan Rail (MOS) Tai Wai - Wu Kai Sha (11.4 km)

19 Dec -- Delhi -- Line 2 Vishwa Vidyalaya (Delhi University) - Kashmere Gate

18 Dec -- Washington -- Blue Line Addison Rd - Largo Town Center (5km)

12 Dec -- Milan -- Passante Dateo - Porta Vittoria

04 Dec -- Nürnberg -- U1 Stadthalle - Klinikum

01 Dec -- Tokyo -- Tokyo Monorail Haneda Airport - Terminal 2

For more metro lines or sections opened in 2004 click here!

All dates shown are subject to change!

Spring -- Delhi -- Line 3 Dwarka - Dwarka Subcity

28 May -- Tianjin -- Line 1 reopening

28 May -- Berlin -- U55 Hauptbahnhof - Reichstag

Autumn -- Nürnberg -- U3 Gustav-Adolf-Straße - Maxfeld

September -- Moscow -- Mezhdunarodnaya

September -- Brussels -- Line 2 Clemenceau - Delacroix

14 Oct -- Munich -- U6 Garching-Hochbrück - G.-Forschungszentrum

15 Oct -- Caracas -- L3 La Valle - La Rinconada

December -- St. Petersburg -- Parnasskaya

2006 -- Warsaw -- Plac Wilsona - Marymont

late 2006 -- Caracas -- L4 Capuchinos - Pl. Venezuela

?? -- Samara -- Moskovskaya - Rossiyskaya

?? -- Minsk -- Vostok - Uruchye

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