The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

* James Henry Greathead, who helped with the Tower Subway, and became resident engineer on the Hammersmith extension railway and the Richmond extension of the Metropolitan District Railway, a post which he held for four years.

The Underground railway system had been developed and was owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and the Metropolitan Railway.

The Metropolitan Railway, for example, was active in building and promoting its own housing estates in the north-west of London, consisting mostly of detached houses on large plots, which it then marketed as " Metro-land ".

** Metropolitan District Railway – green

** Metropolitan Railway – red

** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines

He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

After acquiring the Great Northern & City Railway ( GN & C ) in 1913 ( the current Northern City Line ), the Metropolitan Railway made plans to join the GN & C to the Waterloo & City or to the Circle Line, but these never came to fruition.

On 10 January 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened a line between Paddington and Farringdon.

Construction of the Metropolitan Railway close to King's Cross station in 1861

The origins of the Metropolitan line lie with the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opening in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon Street, to connect the relatively remote terminus of Paddington with the City.

The Metropolitan Railway branched out to the suburbs from Baker Street, reaching Harrow in 1880, and eventually as far as, over from the centre of London.

An extension at the southern end of the line to Camberwell and Denmark Hill was proposed and approved in 1931 as part of the London Electric Metropolitan District and Central London Railway Companies ( Works ) Act, 1931.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened the world's first underground line between Paddington and Farringdon Street with wooden carriages and steam locomotives.

The same year a select committee report recommended an ' inner circle ' of railway lines connecting the London railway termini, and the Metropolitan District Railway was formed the next year to build the southern portion of the line.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon Street, connecting Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City.

In the next year the Metropolitan District Railway ( commonly known as the District railway ) was formed to build and operate a railway from South Kensington to Tower Hill.

When introduction was attempted on 1 July 1905 a Metropolitan train overturned the third rail on the District Railway ; following this the Metropolitan trains were modified before running again on the District lines and full electric service started on 24 September.

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

The GMP is an annual measurement of the total economic output and sales of goods and services provided within the Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) that comprises all of Volusia County and its 16 cities.

The route through central London is via St Pancras International for connections to Eurostar and the East Midlands ; Farringdon, for London Underground's Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines, and Crossrail from 2018 ; City Thameslink, which replaced the demolished Holborn Viaduct station and also has a southern entrance serving Ludgate Circus ; Blackfriars, for other rail services and the Underground District and Circle lines ; and London Bridge, for links to a number of other lines.

By May 1870 the District railway had opened its line from West Brompton to Blackfriars via Gloucester Road and South Kensington, services being operated at first by the Metropolitan.

This enabled Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan District Railway ( District ) trains to commence through services to the East London Railway later that year.

After the 1923 Grouping the goods service was operated by London and North Eastern Railway ( as successors to the GER ), with the Metropolitan Railway continuing to provide passenger services.

After the war, the area beyond Edgware was made part of the Metropolitan Green Belt, largely preventing the anticipated residential development in the area, and the potential demand for services from Bushey Heath thus vanished.

San Diego Metropolitan Transit System ( MTS ) provides bus and paratransit services to the city from throughout San Diego County.

Westover Metropolitan Airport is located in neighboring Chicopee ; offering air services throughout the region.

Sewer services are provided by the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County.

It is most commonly listed as part of the Johnstown Metropolitan Statistical Area, although state and local sources list it as part of the Altoona area as an Altoona suburb due to being much closer to Altoona and as a result, eastern Cambria county, including Cresson, is often more marketed to by Altoona businesses than by Johnstown businesses for services and jobs.

Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas ( METRO ) operates public bus services in the area.

However, he also sometimes attended services at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, whose pastor, Brent Hawkes, was a longtime New Democratic Party activist and a personal friend of Layton's.

In the early 1980s there was a proposal to close Marylebone, divert British Rail services via High Wycombe into nearby Paddington, and extend the Metropolitan Line to Aylesbury, so London trains via Amersham would be routed to Baker Street.

For mainline passengers wishing to use services on the Circle, Hammersmith and City or Metropolitan Lines, it may often be quicker to walk the short distance to nearby Baker Street station, than to make the journey on the Bakerloo Line and change trains there: especially since the Bakerloo is further underground than the Circle, Metropolitan and H & C lines.

The Metropolitan Council grouped together different Public Transportation companies operating in the Metropolitan area, such as HKL, operator of the metro, Suomenlinna ferry service and bus services within the Helsinki region, and published a timetable of all public transport quarterly, and provided a public transport route planner service on the Internet.

On 20 November 1939, following the construction of an additional southbound platform and connecting tube tunnels between Baker Street and Finchley Road stations, the Bakerloo line took over the Metropolitan line's stopping services between Finchley Road and Wembley Park and its Stanmore branch.

In order to accommodate the new, longer S stock trains, which started operating certain Metropolitan line services in August 2010, platforms 1 and 4 have been extended.

Even Joan Sutherland may not have anticipated the tremendous reception she received from the Metropolitan Opera audience attending her debut as Lucia in Donizetti's `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' Sunday night.

*, formerly HMS Atlas, used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London from 1881-1904

Located in northeastern Germany on the River Spree, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has 6 million residents from over 180 nations.

In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).

A miniature guard wielding a handheld crossbow from the top balcony of a model watchtower, made of glazed earthenware during the Han Dynasty | Eastern Han era ( 25 – 220 AD ) of China, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

Hand bill from the Metropolitan Board of Health | New York City Board of Health, 1832-the outdated public health advice demonstrates the lack of understanding of the disease and its actual causative factors.

A successful March 2004 regional transportation ballot measure included funding to rehabilitate the rail bridge for the commuter rail service, but in October 2008 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission transferred $ 91 million from this project to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont

Boating, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exemplifies in its conciseness the lessons Manet learned from Japanese prints, and the abrupt cropping by the frame of the boat and sail adds to the immediacy of the image.

In recent years, the agency began undertaking a large-scale effort to consolidate its operations in the Washington Metropolitan Area from its main headquarters in Rockville and several fragmented office buildings in the vicinity to the former site of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the White Oak area of Silver Spring, Maryland.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

A Hittite rhyton from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Its head, the Metropolitan, fled from Kiev to Vladimir in 1299 and a few years later established the permanent headquarters of the Church in Moscow under the original title of Kiev Metropolitan.

* A few historic harpsichords from the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

* 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place ; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.

It brought the UERL lines under the same control, and took over supervision of buses from the Metropolitan Police.

In 1992, the then Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Ieronymos of Thebes and Levathia ( the current Archbishop of Athens and All Greece ) requested from Bishop Antonio Mattiazzo of Padua the return of a a significant fragment of the relics of St. Luke to be placed on the site where the holy tomb of the Evangelist is located and venerated today.

They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome from 1982 to 2009.

26. 6 % of imports came from Metropolitan France, 16. 1 % from other European countries, 13. 6 % from Singapore ( essentially fuel ), 10. 7 % from Australia, 4. 0 % from New Zealand, 3. 2 % from the United States, 3. 0 % from Japan, and 22. 7 % from other countries.