Electric underground railway
Metro eléctrico subterráneo
- Date
- 1890 · confidence high
- Place
- London, England (City & South London Railway)
- Credited to
- City & South London Railway (1890); Budapest (1896); Paris (1900); New York (1904)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
First electrically hauled underground railway with a deep tunnel bored by a shield tunnelling machine. It freed the underground from steam smoke and made it exportable to every major city.
What it led to
- Metropolis of millions of inhabitants with daily commuting
- Separation of home and workplace
- Urban tunnelling engineering
Built on
- Siemens electric locomotive at the Berlin Trade Fair1879
- Electric tram (streetcar)1881–1888
- Steam Metropolitan Railway (1863)
- Greathead shield
Made possible
- Budapest Metro (Földalatti)2 de mayo de 1896
- Buenos Aires Subte (Line A)1 de diciembre de 1913
- Tokyo Metro (first subway in Asia)30 de diciembre de 1927
- Paris, New York and Buenos Aires undergrounds
- Station escalators