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London and Birmingham Railway

The London and Birmingham Railway was a 112-mile main-line railway company engineered by Robert Stephenson, opening in 1838 before merging into the London and North Western Railway.

London, Tilbury and Southend line

The London, Tilbury and Southend line, or LTS line, is an electrified commuter railway from London Fenchurch Street through south Essex to Shoeburyness, operated by c2c.

Los Angeles Metro Rail

Los Angeles Metro Rail, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, combines subway and light rail service on six lines and 115 stations, growing since 1990.

LRT Line 1 (Metro Manila)

LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) is an elevated light rail line in Metro Manila, Philippines. Opened in 1984, it was the first light rail system in Southeast Asia.

Magenta Line (Delhi Metro)

The Magenta Line, also known as Delhi Metro Line 8, is a driverless Delhi Metro line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden, India's first fully unmanned train network.

Main line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)

The Main line is the original Mumbai Suburban Railway corridor on Central Railway, running 54 km from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Kalyan, where it splits toward Kasara and Khopoli.

Marunouchi Line (丸ノ内線)

The Marunouchi Line (丸ノ内線) is a 24.2 km Tokyo Metro subway line from Ogikubo to Ikebukuro through central Tokyo, opened in 1954 as the city's first postwar subway.

Mattapan Line

The Mattapan Line, formally the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line and often called the Mattapan Trolley, is a 2.6-mile MBTA light rail line in Boston and Milton, Massachusetts.

Mauritania Railway

The Mauritania Railway is a 704 km heavy-haul railway carrying iron ore from the mines at Zouérate to the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania's only railway.

Meridian Speedway (rail line)

The Meridian Speedway is a 320-mile freight rail corridor from Meridian, Mississippi, to Shreveport, Louisiana, forming the eastern portion of the rail route between Dallas and Meridian.

Metro Green Line (Minnesota)

The Metro Green Line, or Central Corridor LRT, is an 11-mile light rail line linking downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul along University Avenue, opened in 2014.

METRO Light Rail (Phoenix)

METRO Light Rail is a light rail system in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, operated by Valley Metro Rail and serving Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa, with its first line opening in 2008.

Metro Manila Subway

The Metro Manila Subway is the Philippines' first subway, a 33-kilometer underground line under construction from Valenzuela City to Pasay City with a branch to NAIA Terminal 3.

Metropolitan line

The Metropolitan line, also known as the Met line, is a London Underground line that descends from the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened in 1863.

Midland Main Line

The Midland Main Line (MML) is a UK railway running from London St Pancras to Sheffield via Leicester and Derby, opened in 1870 and operated by East Midlands Railway.

Montparnasse derailment

The Montparnasse derailment, also called the Montparnasse train crash, was an 1895 railway accident in which the Granville–Paris Express overran Gare Montparnasse and fell nose-first onto the street below.

Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway

The Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) was a Class II regional freight railroad operating in Maine, Vermont, and Quebec from January 2003 until its bankruptcy in 2013.

Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail is a 508-kilometer high-speed rail corridor under construction between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, India's first bullet train line using Japanese Shinkansen technology.

Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor

The Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor, also known as the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train, is a 508 km line under construction that will be India's first high-speed rail line.

Music City Loop

Music City Loop is a privately funded underground transit project by The Boring Company, announced in 2025, using Tesla vehicles to link downtown Nashville with Nashville International Airport.

N (New York City Subway service)

The N, or Sea Beach Express, is a New York City Subway service from Astoria, Queens to Coney Island, Brooklyn, local in Queens and express in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Nambu Line (南武線)

The Nambu Line (南武線), or Nanbu Line, is a JR East railway line in Tokyo and Kanagawa running from Kawasaki Station to Tachikawa, opened in 1927.

Norfolk Southern Railway

Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the eastern United States, formed in 1982 from the Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway merger.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, also known as the North York Moors Railway, is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, running steam trains from Pickering to Whitby.

Northern line

The Northern line, once called the Edgware, Highgate and Morden Line, is a busy London Underground line running 58 km from Morden to three northern termini.

Northstar Line

The Northstar Line, also called the Northstar Commuter Line, was Minnesota's first commuter rail service, running 40 miles from Big Lake to Minneapolis from 2009 to 2026.

Orange Line (Lahore Metro)

The Orange Line Metro Train is a 27.1 km rapid transit line in Lahore, Pakistan, opened in October 2020 as Pakistan's first rail-based mass transit line.

Overhead line

An overhead line, also called overhead contact system or overhead line equipment, is a system of energized wires that supplies electric power to moving trains through a pantograph, from trams to high-speed lines.

Overseas Railroad

The Overseas Railroad, also known as Flagler's Folly, carried trains from Homestead across the Florida Keys to Key West, opening in 1912 and ending after the 1935 hurricane.

Pacific Electric

Pacific Electric, also known as the Pacific Electric Railway, was a Southern California interurban railroad whose Red Cars linked Los Angeles with suburbs from 1901 to 1961.