The deepest metro station in the world is Hongyancun Station in Chongqing, China, at 116 meters (381 ft) below ground, followed closely by Kyiv's Arsenalna Station (around 105-130m) and Pyongyang's Metro (also very deep). Chongqing's station handles massive depth with extensive escalators, while Kyiv's Arsenalna is famous for its extremely long ride down due to the city's hills.
The station was opened along with the first stage and is currently the second-deepest station in the world at 105.5 metres (346 ft), after Hongyancun station of the Chongqing Metro. The depth is attributed to the geography of Kyiv, whose high bank of the Dnipro River rises above the rest of the city.
Hampstead is the deepest station below the surface, at 58.5 metres (192 ft), as its surface building is near the top of a hill, and the Jubilee line platforms at Westminster are the deepest platforms below sea level at 32 metres (105 ft).
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Moscow metro construction started in 1930-s. At that time geological surveys were conducted and it appeared that the nature of the soil would make tunneling particularly difficult in Moscow. Many underground rivers were discovered. It was safer to dig tunnels deep under the ground level.
Kiev changed to Kyiv to reflect the Ukrainian language and assert national identity, moving away from the Russian-derived spelling (Киев) associated with Soviet and imperial Russia towards the Ukrainian-derived spelling (Київ) after independence in 1991, a shift widely adopted by international media following the 2014 and 2022 invasions as part of the "#CorrectUA" campaign.
For over 60 years, Arsenalna held the world record as the deepest metro station at 105.5 meters. In 2022, Chongqing's Hongyancun station (116 meters) took the title. Still, Arsenalna remains the deepest in Kyiv and Eastern Europe. Its two-part escalator — over 100 meters total — is the city's longest and oldest.
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The world's deepest metro station is Hongyancun station of Chongqing Rail Transit, at 116 metres (381 ft) deep, followed by Arsenalna on the Kyiv Metro, which is 105 metres (344 ft) deep.
Today workers do not have to dig by hand when tunnels are dug deep underground, but instead are assisted by tunnel boring machines, or TBMs for short. This massive machine is over 300 feet long and weighs around 485 tons!
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