What is the deepest underground in the world?

St Petersburg's metro is the world's deepest line, based on an average depth of 60 metres (HKU is the deepest station on the Hong Kong MTR, at 70 metres, by comparison). Burrowed even further underground is Arsenalna station, Kiev, which lies 105.5 metres beneath the Ukrainian capital and is the deepest on the planet.



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THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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The Arsenalna station, reached via an escalator ride that takes five minutes, was constructed at depths of up to 346 feet (105 meters) — the deepest subway platform in the world.

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THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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Châtelet-Les Halles stations is the world's biggest underground train station - Sortiraparis.com.

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The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system.

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Abbesses is the deepest station in the Paris Métro, at 36 metres (118 feet) below ground, and is located on the western side of the butte (hill) of Montmartre.

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Many stations built during the Cold War are very deep and were planned as shelters in the event of nuclear attack. During your Moscow tours we advise you to see not only beautiful halls of Moscow metro but take a picture of the longest escalator.

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Completed in the 1960s when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, it includes stations built deep underground, designed to double as bomb shelters in the event of an enemy attack. Kyiv's Arsenalna station is considered to be the deepest in the world, located 346 ft (105.5 m) below ground.

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The cities of Özkonak, Derinkuyu, and Kaymakli in Cappadocia, Turkey, are some of the most complete (and most underground) of our underground cities. Denrikuyu is estimated to have once been capable of housing 20,000 people, and actually connects to Kaymakli via an underground tunnel, eight kilometers long.

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At 402 kilometres in length, the London Underground is also the world's second-longest metro system while 434 kilometres Shanghai Metro in China is the longest to date.

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The Carmelit is the smallest subway system in the world, having only four cars, six stations and a single tunnel 1.8 km (1.1 mi) long.

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London Underground is longer at 250 miles long to Paris Métro's titchy 133 miles. But the Métro has more lines (16 versus 11) and more stations (303) than London (270).

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Saint-Lazare was the first station to be built, in 1837, soon followed by the Gare du Nord, the Gare de l'Est and the Gare de Lyon.

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The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railway, situated in the English city of Leeds. It was founded in 1758 and is now a heritage railway, run by volunteers from The Middleton Railway Trust Ltd.

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