Metros around the world

Just briefly before we stray too far, does anybody know when the phrase "Platform Train Interface" was first coined as it certainly wasn't in use during my youth and also, what was it referred to as previously? 

Hong Kong's system is very good - nice and clean at all times - frequent trains - reasonable fares - and of course new platform safety screens on every platform face - carefully retrofitted between 1998 and 2011 to all stations on the MTR (The KCR appears to be next in line for the works).

@innercircle - I fear that Tallinn has only trams,no metro. It's a well-organised 4 route system with mostly street running plus some running on reservation. No tunnels, no metro vehicles, all boarding at ground level - -only trams.(If Tallinn has a metro than so has every country in the world that has a conventional tramway system...) I write as somebody who lived in Tallinn for two years during which I travelled the entire system many times. There *are* some hybrid systems such as the Brussels and Charleroi pre-metro systems where conventional trams run in tunnels in the city centre but run as conventional trams in the suburbs (like Boston as mentioned by countryman ) .

The trickiest metro system I have used so far is the St Petersburg one - the stations all have platform edge doors; the doors are blank and so are the platform edge walls between the doors, so on arrival at a station there is no visual indication of where you are at all - you have to rely on counting the stations and the difficult to follow Russian announcements. And of course, the Moscow system has the best stations.

St Petersburg has few platform edge doors but not all stations only two or three stations

Hong Kong has their "Tube" network called the MTR, and their Overground Trains called "KCR", hence the titles used. (Mass Transit Rail) and (Kowloon-Canton Railway).

Yes, indeed .

Not all, only 10 out of 67 stations on lines 2 and 3.

Of course! How could I forget the Boston T! Was over there in January and the Orange line has to be my favourite. Stock dating back to 1979 will little if any refurbishment!

London
Paris
Berlin
Copenhagen
Bilbao

Going to Madrid next month.

Glasgow
Stockholm
Paris
Rhein-Ruhr (does that count?)
München
Nürnburg
Berlin
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Brussels
Praha
Stuttgart
Wuppertal
Wien
Boston
New York (inc. Staten Island Railway and PATH)
Philadelphia

London
Madrid
Paris
Dubai
Rome
Barcelona


Definitely have catching up to do. I'm disappointed in myself.

Bilbao?
Did you include the Transporter Bridge?

Just back from Hamburg - they have a varied U and S Bahn system. No trams, unfortunately. One of the highlights for me was a visit to line U4, the newest on the system, which runs to the Hafencity quarter. A "must-see" is the station at Hafencity Universitat, which has an innovative lighting system. Every weekend and holiday, on the hour, there is a short light-show, where they synchronise the lights to classical music. It's fascinating. Also a trip on the Hochbahn elevated section between Landungsbrucken and Rodingsmarkt stations is mandatory. Just like the old Liverpool Overhead railway!
Alistair

Thanks for the tip about Miniatur Wunderland model rail exhibition. I had pre-booked that online before going, and was well impressed with the vast layout. Almost too much to take in on one visit!

I appear to have seen nothing...

London
Glasgow Subway
Lancaster/Morecambe/Heysham
Tyneside
Manchester (trams)
Blackpool/Fleetwood (trams)
Lisbon (trams)
Lille (trams)
Tangier (camel)

If you're in Cairo use their Metro system instead