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    The Lille Metro (French: Métro de Lille) is a driverless light metro system located in Lille, France. It was opened on 25 April 1983 and was the first...
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    de Lille (MEL; English: "European Metropolis of Lille") is the métropole, an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities (Lille, Roubaix...
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    Lille (/ˈliːl/ LEEL; French: [lil] ; Dutch: Rijsel [ˈrɛisəl]; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French...
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    Metro, Lille Metro, Toulouse Metro, and most parts of Santiago Metro, use concrete. The Busan Subway Line 4 employs a concrete slab. The Paris Métro,...
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    two stations, which are also adjacent stops on one of the lines of the Lille Metro. The station was built by Léonce Reynaud and Sydney Dunnett for the CF...
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    at Lille-Flandres station. There is a 400-metre (1,300 ft) walking distance between the two stations, which are also connected by the Lille Metro and...
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    of the Metro initially threatened the trams, they were kept in service. The lines originally terminated in the street outside the Opéra de Lille, but in...
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    is served by the Mairie de Lille metro station on line 2 of the Lille Metro. At the beginning of the 20th century, Lille's Town Hall was located on the...
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    developed at the Lille University of Science and Technology, was marketed by Matra, and first used in the early 1980s for the Lille Metro system, one of...
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    station Porte des Postes is a station on lines 1 and 2 of the Lille Metro, located in Lille. Opened on 2 May 1984, it is located at the site the former...
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    Rapid transit (redirect from Metro system)
    light metro lines. One of the first such systems was the VAL (véhicule automatique léger or "automated light vehicle"), first used in 1983 on the Lille Metro...
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  • On the Sapporo Municipal Subway a central rail guides the train. The Lille Metro, Translohr and Bombardier Guided Light Transit are also guided by a central...
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    Ilévia (category Transport in Lille)
    The Lille Metro is a VAL system (véhicule automatique léger = light automated vehicle), which opened on May 16, 1983, the first automatic metro line...
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    The Rome Metro (Italian: Metropolitana di Roma) is a rapid transit system that operates in Rome, Italy. It started operation in 1955, making it the oldest...
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  • part of the Vienna Stadtbahn 4 services the system is part-metro part-tramway. Only the metro sections are listed here 4 services 4 services 4 routes 2...
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    This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways...
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    trains. Orlyval is the second line to use the VAL technology after the Lille Metro and the first airport people mover system to use VAL. The line was financed...
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  • Without a conventional track: The ones of the Lille Metro are precast concrete. The ones of the Toulouse Metro are precast concrete. The ones of the Sapporo...
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    The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki...
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    Route map The Thessaloniki Metro (Greek: Μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης, Metró Thessaloníkis, [meˈtro θesaloˈnicis]) is an underground rapid-transit system under construction...
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    The Lyon Metro (French: Métro de Lyon, [metʁo d(ə) ljɔ̃]) is a rapid transit system serving Lyon Metropolis, France. First opened in 1974, it currently...
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    The Warsaw Metro (Polish: Metro Warszawskie) is a rapid transit underground system serving the Polish capital Warsaw. It currently consists of two lines...
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    The Paris Métro (French: Métro de Paris, [metʁo d(ə) paʁi]), short for Métropolitain ([metʁɔpɔlitɛ̃]), is a rapid transit system serving the Paris metropolitan...
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    The Milan Metro (Italian: Metropolitana di Milano) is the rapid transit system serving Milan, Italy, operated by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi. The network...
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    The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South...
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    Additionally "tram-train" systems are called Regionalstadtbahn and "semi-metro" systems are called U-Stadtbahn or U-Strab. A rapid transit system is a...
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    The Brussels Metro (French: Métro de Bruxelles, Dutch: Brusselse metro) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region...
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    The Tbilisi Metro (Georgian: თბილისის მეტროპოლიტენი, romanized: tbilisis met'rop'olit'eni) is a rapid transit system in the Georgian capital Tbilisi....
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    The Budapest Metro (Hungarian: Budapesti metró) is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest. Opened in 1896, it is the world's second...
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    The Prague Metro (Czech: Pražské metro) is the rapid transit network of Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1974, the system consists of three lines (A...
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