Metro Train Families
Metro systems of the world are diverse, but nevertheless some metro systems are obviously (or not so obviously) related with each other. Some use the same or similar trains, or the station design is similar, or both — or something else is related, in a technical sense.
The following list includes suggestions from a discussion at Skyscrapercity. This page updated 20 Sep 2009.
Ansaldo/Breda family
Members: Brescia, Milan (Line 5), Copenhagen.
Characteristics: Similar trains.
Australian commuter trains family
Members: Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide.
Characteristics: Similar system and train design.
Chinese family
Members: Hong Kong, Beijing, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan.
Characteristics: Unadorned, clean and solid station design, often using coloured plates. Western-style trains. Hong Kong acted as consultant for most Chinese metro cities.
Former Soviet family
Members: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Tbilisi, Baku, Kharkiv, Tashkent, Yerevan, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Dnipropetrovsk, Kazan.
Characteristics: The same type of trains is used, and stations are often lavishly decorated and made of marble or other natural stone. Many cities began with a triangular three-line network layout with three transfer stations.
Derivatives: Warsaw Pact family.
German/Austrian family
Members: Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna.
Characteristics: Using similar trains.
Derivatives: Hamburg derivatives family.
Hamburg derivatives family
Members: Hamburg, Athens, Amsterdam, Dublin.
Characteristics: Hamburg's Metro operator was consultant to other cities until the 1970s, and some older train types look similar.
Istanbul-Caracas family
Members: Istanbul, Caracas.
Characteristics: Using similar trains.
Japanese/Korean family
Members: Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Sendai, Yokohama, Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Daejeon, Incheon.
Characteristics: Unadorned, clean and solid station design, often using coloured plates. Majority are run by Japan Railways Group, other trains mostly derived from those.
Michelin/Alstom family
Members: Lausanne (M2), Lyon (line A, B and D), Marseille, Mexico City, Montreal, Paris (line 1, 4, 6, 11 and 14), Santiago de Chile (line 1,2 and 5)
Characteristics: rubber-tyred metro developed by Michelin in the 1930s
Derivatives: VAL family
Rhine-Ruhr LRT family
Members: Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen, Mülheim.
Characteristics: Using very similar LRT trains (Type B).
Siemens LRT family
Members: Frankfurt, San Diego, Portland, Edmonton, Calgary.
Characteristics: Older LRT train types are the same.
Derivatives: Rhine-Ruhr LRT family.
Spanish family
Members: Barcelona, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).
Characteristics: Using similar trains.
US Boeing LRT family
Members: Boston, San Francisco (MUNI).
Characteristics: Same trains.
US Bombardier ART family
Members: Vancouver (Expo and Millennium Lines), Kuala Lumpur, Toronto, New York City, Detroit People Mover, Beijing (Airport Line), Yongin (South Korea), Miami Metro Mover.
Characteristics: Similar trains. Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur using LIM technology.
US Budd family
Members: Baltimore, Miami.
Characteristics: Same trains.
US Rohr Industries family
Members: Washington, San Franisco BART
Characteristics: Spacious trains with carpets.
VAL family
Members: Toulouse, Lille, Paris Airport shuttles (Orlyval and CDGVal), Rennes, Turin, Uijeongbu (South Korea), Taipei, Chicago (O'Hare Hare airport)
Characteristics: Sleek little automated, rubber-tyred metros. Platforms are short and have platform screen doors.
Warsaw Pact family
Members: Budapest, Bucarest, Prague, Sofia
Characteristics: The same type of trains as in the Soviet family is used (or newer developments), stations unadorned.
Feedback
This page: http://mic-ro.com/metro/families.html
© 2004-2010 metrobits.org
Home —
Fact Sheets —
World Metro Database —
Metro Arts & Architecture —
Metro Logos —
Resources —
Forum —
About
|
Printer-friendly