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Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on elevated rails above street level...

Timeline of Events

1870

8.2.1870

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.

1897

9.1.1897

The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

1918

11.1.1918

Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.

1927

12.30.1927

The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.

1954

3.30.1954

The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.

1995

10.28.1995

289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.

1998

2.18.1998

Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.