The first underground was built in London in 1863. Until 1891 trains were steam-driven.
The oldest underground in continental Europe is in Budapest. It was put into operation in 1986.
The Moscow underground, or Metro, was built in 1935. Today, 11 Soviet cities have their undergrounds - Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi, Baku, Kharkov, Tashkent, Yerevan, Minsk, Gorky and Novosibirsk. It is planned to build undergrounds in Sverdlovsk, Kuibyshev, Riga and Dnepropetrovsk.
The shortest interval between trains in Moscow Metro is 1 min 20 s. The longest underground route is in New York. It totals 400 km and has 500 stations. The shortest underground is in Istanbul. It is less than a kilometer.
The deepest underground is in Pyongyang. Its tunnels lie at a depth of over 100 metres.
The highest-elevated underground is in Mexico lying at an altitude of 2279 metres above sea level.
The longest landing platform, 1100 metres, is at an underground station in Chicago.
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