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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.