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Beijing Subway Line 22 Opens From Hongmiao to Pinggu
DELAYED12 months late40% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysEnglish Wikipedia[1] says the line "will open between Hongmiao and Pinggu in late 2026", and the August 2026 report it cites says the line 年底基本具备开通条件 ("will basically meet the conditions for opening by the end of the year"), so the day stands for late 2026.Line 22, built as the Pinggu line, is the first inter-provincial metro line between Beijing and Hebei: 81.82 km and 22 stations from Dongdaqiao in Chaoyang through Tongzhou and Sanhe in Hebei out to Pinggu, using 8-car Type D trains at up to 160 km/h. Empty trial running between Hongmiao and Pinggu began on 25 August 2026; Jintai Xizhao and Dongdaqiao are held back to 2029.0.72Delhi Metro's Golden Line Opens Its First Section, Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar
DELAYED2 years late61% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysConstruction World[2], 16 September 2026, narrows the year to a month: DMRC is "targeting December 2026 for the opening of the first operational section of the Golden Line between Tughlaqabad and Sangam Vihar. The 8.4-km stretch is planned as the initial section". December is the last month of the year the pin already sat on, so the day stands at 31 December 2026 - now as the end of a named month rather than a bare year. The full Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor follows later.The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.0.70Kwu Tung Station Opens on the East Rail Line
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsMTR's Northern Link project site says "the main construction works have already been commenced in 2023, with a target to complete the entire project in 2027", giving a year rather than a day.[1]Kwu Tung opens between Sheung Shui and Lok Ma Chau as the first railway station serving the Kwu Tung North new development area in Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis. It is being built by cut-and-cover directly above the operating Lok Ma Chau Spur Line tunnel, using box structures left in place when that tunnel was built, so East Rail trains keep running underneath.0.70Paris Métro Opens Its First Line
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE126.2 years agoRATP's[3] own history page and EarthSky's[2] science-history article both give 19 July 1900 as the inauguration date of the first métro line.The Paris Métro's first line opened to the public on 19 July 1900, running between Porte Maillot and Château de Vincennes.0.69Metropolitan Railway Opens the World's First Underground Line
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE163.7 years agoThe London Transport Museum and Britannica[2] both date the Metropolitan Railway's opening between Paddington and Farringdon to January 10, 1863.The Metropolitan Railway opened between Paddington and Farringdon on January 10, 1863, the world's first underground railway and the ancestor of every metro system shown in Moving Millions Every Day.0.69Delhi's Namo Bharat Rapid Rail Priority Section Opens
Sahibabad RRTS Station, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaNational Capital Region Transport Corporation
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the 17km "stretch from Duhai Depot (in Ghaziabad) to Sahibabad near the Delhi border" opened to the public the day after its Friday inauguration.The first 17km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS, India's first regional rapid rail line, was inaugurated as "Namo Bharat," opening to passengers the next day.$4B0.68Shanghai East Railway Station Opens Next to Pudong Airport
ESTIMATED52% CONFIDENCEin 311 daysThe Shanghai[1][2] municipal government's own English news page (19 March 2025) says "the project is scheduled to be operational in July 2027, offering seamless connections to high-speed rail, urban railway, metro lines, buses and the airport" - a month rather than a day, so the pin takes the last day of July 2027 instead of the end of the year.Shanghai's second-largest station after Hongqiao is being built in the bonded area beside Pudong International Airport, its high-speed station building given 15 platforms and 30 tracks. Passengers will walk roughly 250 metres between the trains and the airport.0.68Chongqing East, the World's Biggest Train Station
Chongqing East railway station, Nan'an District, Chongqing, China
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the Chongqing East railway station opened to passengers on 27 June 2025."China opened Chongqing East, a 1.22 million sq m high-speed rail hub roughly six times the size of New York's Grand Central, as the newest showpiece of its 50,000km high-speed rail network.0.68Jurong Region Line Stage 1 Opens in Singapore's West
DELAYED6 months late40% CONFIDENCEin 1.8 yearsLTA's[1] March 2026 rail factsheet says "Stage 1 of the JRL will open around mid-2028, instead of the initial end-2027 timeline", so the day here stands for mid-2028.The first stage of Singapore's fully elevated, driverless Jurong Region Line opens, serving Tengah and the western estates around Choa Chu Kang. LTA pushed the opening back by about six months after viaduct construction over the Pan-Island Expressway could only be carried out during overnight road closures, and will run interim shuttle buses from end-2027 until the line opens.0.67Four Rebuilt Red Line Stations Open on Chicago's North Side
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe CTA's announcement says "four fully reconstructed Red Line stations in Edgewater and Uptown will open on Sunday, July 20, 2025".[1]The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.0.67Beijing Subway Line 28 Opens Under the CBD
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsEnglish Wikipedia[1] says "It is planned to open in 2029", a year with no month, so the day stands for the end of that year.Phase 1 of Line 28 runs 8.877 km with nine stations beneath Chaoyang's Central Business District, from Dongdaqiao to Guangqudonglu by way of Guanghualu, Dawang Lu and Beijing East railway station. Construction started in July 2021.0.67Metro's D Line Subway Extension Opens Its First Three Stations
Wilshire/La Cienega station, Wilshire Blvd at La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE138 days agoMetro's[1] own project page says of Section 1, "This Opened on May 8, 2026."LA Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line subway extension, carrying the Wilshire Boulevard subway 3.9 miles west of Wilshire/Western to new stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. It is the line's first extension since 1996 and the first of three sections Metro wants running before the 2028 Olympics.0.66
