The subway network, known as the Tube, will be congested and may break the all-time usage record of 4.31 million passengers set on 2 August 2012.

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Down below, the Underground station itself has not been used in any capacity since the 1950s, and has not been part of the working subway network since 1934.

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London's subway, the world's first underground railway network, first opened in 1863.

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The government is massively upgrading the public transportation network (see a map of the planned subway expansion) as part of this expansion of Greater Beijing.

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In the 15 years Dodington has lived in Shanghai, the city's subway system went from nonexistent to the world's longest network with 420 kilometers (260 miles) of tracks.

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The MTA operates New York City's subway and bus system as well as an extensive regional transit network stretching into the suburbs, including the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Roads and the Staten Island Railway.

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So Kevorkian worked his network of business contacts and ended up with PHT at the head of a consortium hoping to build a subway for Thailand's capital.

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