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from 1863 to 2010

21 Oct 2006 - new Lille photo gallery

24 July 2006 - new page for Shiraz

17 June 2006 - new page for Chengdu

1 May 2006 - Madrid page relaunched and enhanced

22 March 2006 - Poznan page added

17 March 2006 - Santo Domingo page added

14 March 2006 - Parma 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

30 Dec -- Shanghai -- Line 2 Zhongshan Park - Songhong Road

30 Dec -- Guangzhou -- Line 3 Kecun - Panyu Square and Tianhe Coach Terminal - Tiyu Xilu

30 Dec -- Guangzhou -- Line 4 Xinzao - Huangge

29 Dec -- Warsaw -- Line 1 Plac Wilsona - Marymont

24 Dec -- Osaka -- Line 8 Imazato - Itakano NEW LINE!

22 Dec -- Madrid -- Line 10 Aviación Española station added

22 Dec -- St. Petersburg -- Line 2 Pros. Prosveshcheniya - Parnas

21 Dec -- Santiago -- Line 2 Einstein - Vespucio Norte

18 Dec -- Shanghai -- Line 3 Jiang Wan Zhen - Jiangyang Bei Road

18 Dec -- Madrid -- Line 11 Pan Bendito - La Peseta

24 Nov -- Madrid -- Line 5 Canillejas - Alameda de Osuna

18 Nov -- Valencia (Venezuela) -- Line 1 Monumental - Cedeño (trial operation) NEW METRO!

11 Nov -- Delhi -- Line 3 Barakhamba - Indraprastha

15 Oct -- Caracas -- L3 La Valle - La Rinconada (without intermediate stations)

14 Oct -- Munich -- U6 Garching-Hochbrück - G.-Forschungszentrum (4.4 km)

04 Sept -- Brussels -- Line 2 Clemenceau - Delacroix

02 Sept -- Vienna -- U1 Kagran - Leopoldau (4.6 km)

30 Aug -- Moscow -- L4 Delovoy Tsentr - Mezhdunarodnaya

28 Aug -- St. Louis -- Forest Park - Shrewsbury Lansdowne I-44

21 Aug -- Oslo -- Storo - Carl Berners plass (Ring Line)

16 Aug -- Santiago -- Line 4A Vicuña Mackenna - La Cisterna (7.7 km)

01 July -- Chongqing -- L2 Dongwuyuan - Xinshancun

19 July -- Caracas -- L4 Capuchinos - Zona Rental (Pl. Venezuela)

12 June -- Tianjin -- Line 1 Liuyuan - Shuanglin trial operation

31 May -- Taipei -- Blue Line Xinpu - Yongning (7.5 km)

27 May -- Porto -- Line E (violet - Airport branch) Verdes - Aeroporto (1.6 km)

26 May -- Prague -- Line A Skalka - Depo Hostivar (1 km)

09 May -- São Paulo -- Line 2 Chácara Klabin station

15 Apr -- São Paulo -- Line 2 Ana Rosa - Imigrantes

03 Apr -- Genoa -- Sarzano/Sant'Agostino station

01 Apr -- Delhi -- Line 3 Dwarka - Dwarka Sector 9

31 Mar -- Porto -- Line D Pólo Universitário - Hospital São João

31 Mar -- Porto -- Line C Fórum Maia - ISMAI

18 Mar -- Porto -- Line B Pedras Rubras - Póvoa de Varzim

16 Mar -- Daejeon -- Line 1 Panam - Government Complex NEW METRO!

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

28 Nov -- Busan -- Line 3 Daejeo - Suyeong (18.1 km)

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

For more metro lines or sections opened in 2005 click here!

All dates shown are subject to change!

20 Jan 2007 -- Bilbao -- Line 2 Sestao - Portugalete

Spring -- Rio de Janeiro -- Line 1 Siqueira Campos - Cantagalo

Spring -- Madrid -- several extensions

March 2007 -- São Paulo -- Line 2 Imigrantes - Alto do Ipiranga

April 2007 -- Athens -- Line 3 Monastiraki - Egaleo

April 2007 -- Recife -- Imbiribeira - Porta Larga

30 June 2007 -- Toulouse -- Line B Borderouge - Ramonville

summer 2007 -- Buenos Aires -- Line H Caseros - Once

Sept 2007 -- Lyon -- Line A Laurent Bonnevay - Vaulx-en-Velin La Soie

..... delayed .....

?? -- Samara -- Moskovskaya - Rossiyskaya

?? -- Minsk -- Vostok - Uruchye

late 2007 -- Berlin -- U55 Hauptbahnhof - Bundestag - Brandenburger Tor

early 2008 -- Nürnberg -- U3 Gustav-Adolf-Straße - Maxfeld

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