The deepest subway station in the world is Hongyancun Station in Chongqing, China, reaching a depth of 116 meters (381 ft), equivalent to a 40-story building, requiring multiple escalators and elevators for the descent, making passengers' ears pop due to pressure changes. It surpasses the previously deepest Arsenalna station in Kyiv, Ukraine (105m), and is part of the Chongqing Rail Transit system, a city known for its mountainous terrain.
Hongyancun station on Line 9 of Chongqing Rail Transit, China, holds the title of the deepest metro station in the world with its deepest point at 116 meters below ground.
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.
What is the most beautiful metro system in the world?
The Moscow metro has been declared the most beautiful metro in the world. It has a total of 325.4 km of railway, 12 lines and 194 stations. On average, 8-9 million passengers are transported by metro.
Moscow is situated on the banks of the Moskva River, which flows for just over 500 km (311 mi) through the East European Plain in central Russia, not far from the natural border of the forest and forest-steppe zone. 49 bridges span the river and its canals within the city's limits.
Record-breakers from top to bottom: The Shanghai Metro has the highest annual ridership in the world. The Beijing Subway is the largest system in the world by total track length.
Metro-2 (Russian: Метро-2) is the informal designation for a clandestine and officially unacknowledged deep underground metro system in the Moscow metropolitan area.
The section of the Northern line at Hampstead Tube station is the deepest, at 221 feet below ground, and has the most steps of any Tube station: 320 in total.
The Purple Line is aligned east to southwest in Namma Metro and connects Whitefield (Kadugodi) in the east with Challaghatta in the southwest is one of the slowest metro in India taking around 1 hour 29 mins to transverse the distance of 43.35 Km with the average speed of 29 Km/h.
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!
But there are notable exceptions: countries like Ireland, Iceland, the Baltic states, and several in the Balkans lack metro networks altogether. In these places, public transport tends to rely more on buses, trams, and suburban rail rather than underground systems.
As of 2025, the New York metropolitan area is the world's principal fintech and financial centre and the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a nominal gross metropolitan product of just under US$2.3 trillion. This is a list of cities in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP).
China has the largest and most extensive metro network in the world. As of December 2024, China's urban rail transit system stretched over 11,000km, comprising more than 310 metro lines in at least 47 cities.
The busiest urban subway system is the Shanghai Subway in China. In 2022, the city's subway system had an average daily ridership of 7,363,500 and carried 2,287,917,700 passengers over the course of the year.
For more than a hundred years people have swum on a daily basis in the Moskva River even when there is ice cover. Groups break through the ice and swim within the exposed water. The Russian state and the Moscow Mayor have claimed the water quality is high and healthy. Unfortunately, this is not actually true.
According to different theories the name of the city might mean 'marshy place', 'dark waters', ´mossy plain´, 'gnat' but linguists cannot come to any agreement and those theories haven't been proven yet. Moscow has never changed its name.
Trivia answer: The world's first subway was the London's Metropolitan Railway. It opened in 1863 with steam powered trains. Subway systems in Budapest and Glasgow opened in 1896, beating Paris by four years.
The world's smallest city with a metro system is Lausanne, Switzerland! With a population of just around 140,000, Lausanne may seem like an unlikely place for a full-fledged metro line, but its unique geography tells a different story.
What is the oldest train station in the world still in use?
The oldest surviving railway station building is Liverpool Road Station in Manchester, England (1830), part of the world's first inter-city railway, though it's now a museum; however, for the oldest continuously working railway, that's the Middleton Railway in Leeds (from 1758), primarily a heritage line, while Heighington Station (1827) on the Stockton & Darlington line is recognized as the oldest station site still in use for some services, according to Rail Engineer and BBC News.
