Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
May 3, 1956 Kurt-Schumacher-Platz in Berlin, Germany, was officially opened. This underground station is a link in the Berlin U-Bahn, the rapid transit system serving the country’s largest city (and capital of the present-day Federal Republic of Germany). Kurt-Schumacher-Platz was built as part of the extension of the Berlin U-Bahn’s north-south line known as U6.... Continue Reading →
April 16, 2013 A newly built railway terminus in Kurla, a suburb of western India’s city of Mumbai, was officially opened. (Along with being the most populous city of India, Mumbai is the capital of the country’s state of Maharashtra.) This terminus was the replacement for a smaller and dilapidated station complex that had long... Continue Reading →
April 8, 2017 A replacement railway station on Monte Generoso in southeastern Switzerland was opened. This station is specifically located in Ticino, which has the distinction of being the only Swiss canton where Italian is the sole official language. The current version of Generoso Vetta railway station was designed by Ticino-born architect Mario Botta (born... Continue Reading →
March 14, 2020 A railway station in Takanawa, a neighborhood of the special ward of Minato in Japan’s capital city of Tokyo, made its official public debut. Takanawa Gateway Station, which is operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), was opened in March of 2020 so that it could be readily available over... Continue Reading →
February 28, 1996 Cisneros station, which is part of the rapid transit system serving the Metropolitan Area of Medellín in the Republic of Colombia, was officially opened. This facility was one of seven stations that made their debut on the same date and constitute Line B of the Medellín Metro. Cisneros station is located in... Continue Reading →
February 23, 2019 A fleet of six-car trains built for the Marunouchi Line of the Tokyo Metro, a major rapid transit system operating in Japan’s Greater Tokyo Area, first went into service on a regular basis. The first of these 53 trains, which are collectively called the Tokyo Metro 2000 series, had been formally unveiled... Continue Reading →
February 6, 2017 Following the completion of work on major innovations and upgrades, Doroteo Jose station of the Manila Light Rail Transit System (better known as the LRT) in the Philippines was officially reopened to great fanfare. Doroteo Jose station, which is part of the LRT’s Line 1 (LRT-1), is located on the major thoroughfare... Continue Reading →
January 31, 2011 In northeastern New Jersey’s Hudson County, a light rail station at 40 West 8th Street in the city of Bayonne was officially opened. 8th Street station is specifically based in Bayonne’s Bergen Point neighborhood. This station is the southern terminus of the 17-mile (27.-kilometer) Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) system in that region... Continue Reading →
January 23, 2006 A newly built ground-level train station in the Illinois village of Elburn, which is more than 40 miles (64.4 kilometers) west of Chicago, was formally opened to the public. Elburn station is the western endpoint of the Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) of the Chicago-area commuter rail system known as Metra. This... Continue Reading →
January 3, 2006 A light rail transit station in Edmonton, the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta, was officially opened. This station, which is part of the light rail system serving Edmonton (nicknamed “Festival City” for the various festivals that it hosts each year), is located at 114th Street at 83rd Avenue on... Continue Reading →
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