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metro station
Sign in to saveAlso known as subway station, tube station, rapid transit station, metro stop, tube stop, subway stop, rapid transit stop
railway station of a rapid transit system
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 4,741 inbound references to metro station, and connects out to rapid transit, Stockholm Metro and Montreal Metro.
The entry is geolocated on the map in railwaystation, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Passenger rail transport, Rapid transit stations and Stations, terminals and stops.
Vinony links it to 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
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- Paris Metro St Lazare.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rapid transit stations
- equivalent class
- schema.org/SubwayStation
- OpenStreetMap tag
- station=subway
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Encyclopedic overview
Taipei 101/World Trade Center metro station, Taipei Metro Every station on Line 14 of the Paris Métro has automatic platform screen doors. The platform at Toronto's Ossington Station is typical of many metro stations, featuring the iconic 'Mind the Gap' display common throughout Britain and the Commonwealth. Display of archeological relics found during construction in Athens Metro, part of the Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection Toledo station on Line 1 of the Naples Metro. On 30 November 2012, the Toledo station was elected by The Daily Telegraph as the most beautiful subway station in Europe and the world, a recognition echoed by CNN’s rankings. A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase tickets, board trains, and evacuate the system in the case of an emergency. In the United Kingdom, they are known as underground stations, most commonly used in reference to the London Underground.
Location
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “metro station” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations