Band 6+: The table illustrates data on the underground railway networks in six different countries, categorized by time, size, and passengers per year.

The Table presents the data of Underground railway systems of several cities.

Overall, London has the oldest and longest railway track, whereas Los Angeles has the most recently established system. In contrast, Tokyo records the highest annual passenger figures, while kyoto has both shortest route and lowest passenger number.

London’s underground highway opened in 1863, considerably earlier than the systems in paris and tokyo, which began operating in 1900 and 1927 respectively. London also has the longest route at 394 kiometers almost twice as paris’s network which extends for 199 Kilometers. Tokyo ranks third in terms of route length which is 155 kilometers of track.

Regarding annual passanger numbers, Tokyo leads significantly, carrying 1927 million passangers per year. This figure is substanially higher than the 1191 million recorded in paris and the 775 Million in london. The remaining three cities have considerably lower figures. Washington DC’s system, which opened in 1976, has a route length of 126 kilometers and serves 144 million passangers annually. Kyoto, despite opening five years later, has inly 11 kilometers of track and carries 45 million passangers per year. Finally los Angeles, whose underground railway opened in 2001, has a 28-kilometers route and transports 50 million passangers annually.