Show us your local rail transit systems

[Austinlee]

^Love those last two pics.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

Well yeah but uhhhh, uhmmm. Sure.

i know, but believe it or not after you get over being stunned speechless...ok that takes a good long while to be sure...but after that and you jump in the entire tokyo metro rail system is actually pretty easy to figure out and use -- i promise lol! there is romaji (roman or english) lettering most places.

if you are leaving the city, the levels of rail service are sometimes a little tougher to parse, but still not too bad (ie., futsuu=local, kyuukou=rapid and tokkyuu=express).

[installers]

Here's Montreal's metro and train lines.

Metro lines go from the middle of the island all the way to the east end. (follow green + orange line).
Montreal Population: 1.86M People, (2011 census)

[R@ptor]

Frankfurt:

[Swede]

I'd love to show of Stockholm's rail map with the LRT-extension that's opening later this year now added. But it's only on the transit authority's site as a .pdf so here a link:
http://sl.se/ficktid/karta%2Fvinter/...rafik_2012.pdf

Notice how the LRT extension (Alvik-Sudbyberg-Solna) makes the whole layout go from decent to not-even-close-to-ok? I'm hoping they'll introduce a new map before that line opens, but I've yet to hear anything at all about it.

[Wooster]

Here's Calgary's LRT system. 2 lines, 4 legs in/out of downtown. The West leg just opened about 6 weeks ago. Map makes it looks small but ridership is about 310,000 daily (1.25 million metro area). There's 44 stations and 56 km (35 miles) of track.



Two more legs (North Central and Southeast), an airport spur and downtown subway tunnel planned. That will bring the system to about 100km of track and about 70 stations. New lines will be complemented by a bevy of BRT and "other" technologies - City is currently contemplating a gondola to span the Bow River Valley connecting the west end of the city to the University of Calgary/Hospital area.

http://www.routeahead.ca/wp-content/...it-network.pdf

[Cirrus]

Here's an interesting map that shows train headways on DC Metrorail:

[MonkeyRonin]

A comprehensive map of rail transit for Toronto, showing subway, streetcar, and commuter train service:




The current standard subway map but in Chinese:




Commuter train map:




Comprehensive map for 2020, by which point all the currently U/C projects should be completed:

[MetroRailRoad]

Here is my citys rapid transit map. Currently, the. SkyTrain has 3 lines. The expo and millenium lines run Bombariar ALRT technology and the Canada Line runs Rotem technology

[photoLith]

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Pittsburgh Light Rail

[Royal Scots Grey]

The Glasgow suburban railway network, the largest in the UK outside London.

[llamaorama]

So I guess Edinburgh never had a ton of suburban trains in comparison?

But then do short rural "intercity" lines in much of Scotland function as commuter services anyways?

[Royal Scots Grey]

Originally Posted by llamaorama

So I guess Edinburgh never had a ton of suburban trains in comparison?

But then do short rural "intercity" lines in much of Scotland function as commuter services anyways?

Yeah, as there are trains every 15 minutes to and from Waverley from the high level station at Queen Street, 4 tph on the North Clyde Line, a hourly service from Glasgow Central via Shotts and at peak hours only, services to North Berwick from Central. No shortage of options.

[Smiley Person]

Northeast Rail Map of long distance, commuter, and tourist railroads in the Northeast US
PDF version at http://northeastrailmap.com

[Swede]

The current generation of LRVs ("A32") and Commuter Trains ("X60") in Stockholm. The next generation of LRV has started delivery and some testing (tho all the A32s are expected to remain in service sine there's an expansion opening soon and an old LRT line getting it's 1940s vehicles replaced). Oh, and yes, there's an interchange stop in the pic, the X60 is blocking us from seeing the Commuter Rail station and the LRT stop is hidden by bridge pillars.


WP_20130714_041 by Gustav Svärd, on Flickr

[cambron J]

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 129 Mile Area Regional System Track Schematic

Other schematics:
106 Mile Area Regional System Track Schematic Existing system
139 Mile Area Regional System Track Schematic 2030 system, based on a proposal presented to the WMATA board on 04 24 2008. (Note this schematic does not show the revision made to the N route in 129 Mile Area Regional System Track Schematic linked to above.)

[alps]

The MTR comprises 218.2 km (135.6 mi) of rail with 152 stations, including 84 railway stations and 68 light rail stops. It has a daily ridership of about 5 million.



Typical 8-car train arriving at Kwai Fong Station


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Interior of one of the oldest, British-built trains, refurbished in the 1990s.


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Causeway Bay Station. Most Island Line platforms are built inside the bored tunnel, hence the circular shape.


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MTR stations are pretty spartan in comparison to those of other cities, but each has a distinctive bright colour scheme. Tin Hau Station is very orange.


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Kinki Sharyo SP1900 EMU pulling into Sha Tin Station. The East Rail Line links Hong Kong to China and has a maximum capacity of over 101,000 passengers per hour, per direction.


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Many staff on duty to keep the system running safely.


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Train stopped at Kwun Tong Station. This was the original terminus station of the first system segment which opened in 1979.


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Comfy interior of the (overpriced!) Airport Express.


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[inSaeculaSaeculorum]

Most recent L.A. Metro map including lines currently planned/under construction:



http://thesource.metro.net/2013/06/1...o-rail-debuts/

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

very exciting times with 5 lines under construction at the same time. I wish we could add the 405 HRT, the West Hollywood extension and a glendale / pasadena / burbank line in the near future.

[SpawnOfVulcan]

It's still hard to wrap my head around the amount of expansion LA's system is undergoing when many systems sit still. But, of course, the city has a lot of virgin (unserved) space to expand in to, so it makes sense.