List of longest subway tunnel sections

This page presents a list of the longest continuous subway tunnel sections of the world, excluding branches from the longest tunnel.

World's longest subway tunnel sections in use

Name System Stations Length in km (mi) Year Completed
Line 3 Guangzhou Metro Airport South - Panyu Square 60.4 (37.5)
(longest branch)		 2005-2010
Line 10 Beijing Subway Xiju - Shoujingmao 57.1 (35.5) 2008-2012
Seoul Subway Line 5 Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation Banghwa - Macheon 47.6 (29.6)
(longest branch)		 1995-1996
Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line Moscow Metro Altufyevo - Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo 41.5 (25.7) 1983–2002
Metro Madrid L-12: (Metro Sur) Madrid Metro, Spain circle route 40.96 (25.5) 2003
Toei Oedo Line TMBT Subway, Japan Hikarigaoka - Shiodome - Tocho-mae 40.7 (25.3) 1991–2000
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Moscow Metro Medvedkovo - Novoyasenevskaya 37.8 (23.5) 1958–1990
Circle MRT Line Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) Dhoby Ghaut - HarbourFront 35.7 km (22.2 mi) 2009–2011
Busan Subway Line 2 Busan Transportation Corporation Jangsan - Dongwon 35.5 km (22.1 mi) 1991-1999
Seoul Subway Line 6 Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation Eungam Loop - Bonghwasan 35.1 km (21.8 mi) 1995-2001
Seoul Subway Line 7 Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation Cheongdam - Bupyeong-gu Office 35.1 (21.7)
(longest branch)		 2000-2012
Line 7 Shanghai Metro Meilan Lake - Huamu Road 34.4 km (21.4 mi) 2010
Metro Madrid L-7 Madrid Metro, Spain Hospital del Henares - Pitis 32.9 (20.5) 1974–2007
Line 3 (Southern leg) Guangzhou Metro Tianhe Coach Terminal-Panyu Square 32.767 (20.45) 2005–2006
Line 3 (Northern leg) Guangzhou Metro Airport South-Tiyu Xilu 32.05 (20.0) 2005–2010
U7 Berlin U-Bahn Rathaus Spandau-Rudow 31.8 (19.7)[1] 1924–1984
Seoul Subway Line 9 Seoul Metro Line 9 Corporation Gimpo Airport-Sports Complex 31.7 km (19.7 mi) 2009-2015
Line 6 Beijing Subway Haidian Wuluju - Caofang 31.0 km (19.3 mi) 2012
IND Eighth Avenue Line and IND Fulton Street Line[2] New York City Subway Inwood – 207th Street to Grant Avenue 30.8 km (19.1 mi) 1932-1956
Line 2 Orange Montreal Metro Côte-Vertu - Montmorency 30.8 km (19.1 mi) 1966–2007
Line 2 Shanghai Metro East Xujing - Longyang Road 30.2 km (18.8 mi) 2000
Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line Saint Petersburg Metro Parnas - Kupchino 29.7 (18.54) 1961–2006
Line 8, Shanghai Metro Shanghai Metro Shiguang Road - Luheng Road 29.7 km (18.5 mi) 2007-2009
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Saint Petersburg Metro Devyatkino - Prospekt Veteranov 29.4 (18.35) 1955–1978
Bannan Line (Taipei Metro Line 5) Taipei Metro Dingpu - Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center 28.2 (17.6)
 1999-2015
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line Moscow Metro Zyablikovo - Maryina Roshcha 28.2 (17.6) 1995–2011
Line 2, Wuhan Metro Wuhan Metro Jinyintan - Optics Valley Square 27.985 (17.49) 2012
Incheon Subway Line 1 Incheon Subway Bakchon - International Business District 27.9 (17.42) 1999-2009
Northern line London Underground Morden - East Finchley 27.8 (17.2) 1890–1940
Tanimachi Line Osaka Municipal Subway Dainichi-Nagahara 27.1 (16.7) 1967–1983
Meijo Line Nagoya Municipal Subway Kanayama-Nagoya Dome-mae Yada-Kanayama 26.4 (16.4) 1965–2004
Line 9 Shanghai Metro Jiuting - Middle Yanggao Road 23.3 km (14.5 mi) 2007-2010
Line 1 Suzhou Metro Mudu - Zhongnan Jie 25.7 (16.0) 2012
Zhonghe-Xinlu Line (Taipei Metro Line 4) Taipei Metro Luzhou - Nanshijiao 25.1 (15.6)
(longest branch)		 1998-2012
Yurakucho Line Tokyo Metro Chikatetsu Narimasu-Tatsumi 24.6 (15.3) 1974–1988
Munich U-Bahn U2 Munich U-Bahn Feldmoching-Messestadt Ost 24.4 (15.2) 1980–2001
Yellow Line Delhi Metro, India GTB Nagar - Qutub Minar 24 (14.9)[3][4] 2010
L-1 Madrid Metro, Spain Valdecarros - Pinar de Chamartín 23.88 km (14.8 mi) 1919–2007
L-6 Madrid Metro, Spain circle route 23.47 km (14.6 mi) 1979–2007
Line 1 Green Montreal Metro Angrignon - Honoré-Beaugrand 23.26 km (14.5 mi) 1966–1978
Warsaw Metro L-1 Warsaw Metro Kabaty-Młociny 23.1 km (14.4 mi) 1995–2008
Line 2 Beijing Subway circle route 23.1 km (14.4 mi) 1971
Line 3 Saint Petersburg Metro Primorskaya - Rybatskoye 22.3 km (13.9 mi) 1967–1984
Line 4 Shanghai Metro Hailun Road - Yishan Road 21.1 km (13.1 mi) 2005-2007
Toei Mita Line Toei Subway Meguro - Shimura-Sakaue 21.1 km (13.1 mi) 1968–2000
Victoria line London Underground Walthamstow Central - Brixton 21 km (13.0 mi) 1968–1971
Line 6, Shanghai Metro Shanghai Metro Boxing Road - Oriental Sports Center 20.34 km (12.6 mi) 2007-2011
Tozai Line Sapporo Municipal Subway Miyanosawa - Shin-Sapporo 20.1 (12.4) 1976–1999
Metro Madrid L-5 Madrid Metro, Spain Alameda de Osuna - Empalme 20.005 (12.5) 1968–2006
North East MRT Line Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) HarbourFront - Punggol 20 km (12.4 mi) 2003
Bucharest Metro Line M3 Bucharest Metro Preciziei - Anghel Saligny 20 km (12.4 mi) 2008
Paris Métro Line 9 Paris Métro Pont de Sèvres - Mairie de Montreuil 19.6 km (12.2 mi) 1922–1937
several lines Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco Balboa Park - West Oakland 19.5 km (12.1 mi) 1973
Kol'tsevaya Line Moscow Metro Circle route 19.4 (12.2) 1950–1954
Munich U-Bahn U3 Munich U-Bahn 19.4 (12.1) 1972–2009
Midosuji Line Osaka Municipal Subway Nakatsu - Nakamozu 19.1 (12.0) 1933–1987
Mexico City Metro Line 3 Mexico City Metro La Raza - Universidad 18.7 km (11.6 mi) 1970-1983
Paris Métro Line 7 Paris Métro La Courneuve – 8 Mai 1945 - Villejuif – Louis Aragon 18.6 (11.6) 1910–1987
Line 1 Shanghai Metro Shanghai South Railway - Shanghai Circus World 18.1 km (11.2 mi) 1993-2004
Avtozavodskaya Line Minsk Metro Kamennaya Gorka - Mogilevskaya 18.1 km (11.2 mi) 1990–2005
Line B Prague Metro Rajská zahrada - Hůrka 18.0 (11.2) 1985–1998
Line 2 (Athens Metro)[5] Athens Metro Anthoupoli - Elliniko 17,900 m (11.1 mi) 1991–2013
Line 3 (Athens Metro)[5] Athens Metro Agia Marina - Doukissis Plakentias 17,800 m (11.1 mi) 1991–2013
Washington, DC Metro Red Line Washington Metro Union Station - Medical Center 17.8 (11.05) 1976–1984
Moskovskaya Line Minsk Metro Piatrovshchyna - Uruchcha 17.4 km (10.8 mi) 1984–2012
Tōzai Line Tokyo Metro Nakano-Minami-Sunamachi 17.0 km (10.6 mi) 1964–1969
Line 4 Barcelona Metro Trinitat Nova - La Pau 16.7 (10.4) 1926–1999
Mexico City Metro Line 1 Mexico City Metro Observatorio - Metro Pantitlán 16.7 km (10.4 mi) 1969-1984
Line 3 Barcelona Metro Zona Universitària - Canyelles 16.6 (10.3) 1924–2001
Metro Madrid L-3 Madrid Metro, Spain Villaverde Alto - Moncloa 16.424 (10.2 mi) 1936–2007
Line 1 Chongqing Rail Transit Chaotianmen - Shapingba 16.4 (10.2) 2011
Metro Madrid L-4 Madrid Metro, Spain Argüelles - Pinar de Chamartín 16.0 (9.9 mi) 1944–2007
Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line Kiev Metro Akademmistechko - Dnipro 16.0 (9.9) 1960–2003
Seoul Subway Line 7 Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation Suraksan - Konkuk University 16.0 (9.9) (shorter section) 1996
Syretsko-Pecherska Line Kiev Metro Syrets - Pivdennyi Bridge 15.2 (9.4) 1989–2004
Line 5 (Saint Petersburg Metro) Saint Petersburg Metro Komendantsky Prospekt - Mezhdunarodnaya 15.1 km (9.4 mi) 1997–2012
Line 1, red Tehran Metro Tajrish-Shush 14.9 (9.3) 2001–2012
Blue Line, line 10 Stockholm Metro Kungsträdgården-Hjulsta 14.3 (8.8) 1975–1977
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line Tokyo Subway Asakusa-Shibuya 14.1 (8.8) 1929–1997
Metro Madrid L-2 Madrid Metro, Spain Las Rosas - Cuatro Caminos 14.031 (8.9 mi) 1924–2011
MTR - Island Line MTR, Hong Kong Kennedy Town - Heng Fa Chuen 14 (8.9 mi) 1985/1986/2014
Paris Métro Line 12 Paris Métro Porte de la Chapelle - Mairie d'Issy 13.9 (8.6) 1910–1934
Line 2 Barcelona Metro Paral•lel - Pep Ventura 13.1 (8.1) 1985–1997

World's longest subway tunnel sections under construction

Name System Stations Length in km (mi) Expected completion
City Circle Line Copenhagen Metro (circle route, all underground) 15.5 (9.6 mi) 2018
L9 / L10 Barcelona Metro 43.7 km (27.2 mi) (incl branches) 2016 partially
Downtown MRT Line Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) Bukit Panjang to Expo 44.2 km (27.5 mi) 2017
Sydney Metro Northwest Sydney Metro Kellyville to Chatswood section 28.5 km (17.7 mi) 2019
Thomson-East Coast MRT Line Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) Woodlands North to Sungei Bedok 43 km (26.7 mi) 2025

See also

References

  1. ↑ "World's longest railway tunnel" 1984 - 1988
  2. ↑ Note that both lines are served continuously by the A train within a single tunnel.
  3. ↑ "Metro to bridge Delhi-Gurgaon divide today". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 2010-09-03. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  4. ↑ Rajesh Ahuja (2010-08-29). "Gurgaon Metro set for operationalisation next week". Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  5. 1 2 "Urban Rail Transport SA :METRO Line 1". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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