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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

New Tehran Metro Line 3 in operation

Within the past ten weeks the first phase of Tehran Metro's Line 3 has been made operational. The following pics depict the Metro's latest additions:

Subway locomotives and rolling stock are reportedly manufactured in Iran

Subway system route signage inside the lower station

Line 3 station identification signage in Persian and English

Attractive art adorning walls inside the lower stations

Upper and lower station access routes; overall appearance is very good

View from the locomotive cab, and looking toward the station platform from inside the tube

10 comments:

  1. Really pleased to see projects such as these. Thank you, Mark.

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  2. Well, these subways are out of western standards, because they don't have graffitis on the walls and on trains as well...

    A-F

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    1. True. This underground system also lacks the vomiting drinks, fast food litter and resident beggars pestering passengers for money that western underground railways have.

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    2. Just wait a few more years and you will see all those things you idiots have mentioned about western subways.
      London underground was the worlds first built over 150 years ago when your great grand daddies were lucky to ride a donkey on a dusty "road" and send salahvat to some ignorant smelly mullah.

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    3. And your grand dady I suppose were riding the subway? You know I hate self-haters

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    4. I'm a realist (:o)

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    5. Anonymous 12:23 PM. Those things are realities in western underground railways (and in other parts of western societies). Drunks vomiting in public are not as likely in Iran, where alcohol is not legal. You're right about London Underground. Underground is a more accurate word for this kind of railway, rather than "subway" which is an American and not even English word.

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    6. perhaps there ARE fewer drunks in Iran, but Iran makes up for that be having the largest per capita number of opiate addicts in the world.

      .... and junkies also are prone to regurgitation.

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  3. Imagine, just imagine, if it were not for the 30+-year sanctions....

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  4. Nice job. It's about time

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