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If anything, the Pyongyang Metro is even more ideological: AFAIK, it's the only metro in the world where all stations are named after concepts (Comrade, Red Sta

If anything, the Pyongyang Metro is even more ideological: AFAIK, it's the only metro in the world where all stations are named after concepts (Comrade, Red Star, Glory, Complete Victory), not nearby places, although there are occasional overlaps (eg. Kaeson/Triumph is near the Arch of Triumph). http://www.earthnutshell.com/stopping-all-stations-the-pyongyang-metro/ http://www.earthnutshell.com/stopping-all-stations-the-pyong... Broadly speaking, though, virtually all older Communist-era metros were inspired by Moscow and look similar: trains, deep underground platforms, triangle network layouts, revolutionary art, etc. Newer lines are more utilitarian and there is the odd delightful exception, like Prague's weird and wonderful Line A from the 1970s: https://ubahn.photos/en/portfolio/prague-line-a/ https://ubahn.photos/en/portfolio/prague-line-a/ (skip ahead 10 photos or so to get past the newer ones)

MichaelMoser123 9y ago
>Broadly speaking, though, virtually all older Communist-era metros were inspired by Moscow and look similar The subway in East Berlin didn't look like the one in Moscow, in Berlin it was built by the Nazis in the thirties (also Wikipedia says that the trains in the Pyongyang metro came from East Berlin - these are a bit different from the wagons in Moscow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro )
- jpatokal 9y ago
  The subway in East Berlin was formerly (and is now again) part of the Berlin U-Bahn, which predates Moscow's metro by a good 30 years. So while in a Communist country, it's not really a Communist-era metro.
  - MichaelMoser123 9y ago
    not exactly 30 years, the first section of the U-Bahn opened in 1923 and the first section of the Moscow metro opened in 1935 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_U-Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_U-Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro
mvdwoord 9y ago
Those pictures from Prague strongly remind me of some of the metro station architecture in Munich. Some of the stations look like an exact copy, must be because that was also built in the seventies.

MichaelMoser123 9y ago

>Broadly speaking, though, virtually all older Communist-era metros were inspired by Moscow and look similar The subway in East Berlin didn't look like the one in Moscow, in Berlin it was built by the Nazis in the thirties (also Wikipedia says that the trains in the Pyongyang metro came from East Berlin - these are a bit different from the wagons in Moscow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro )

jpatokal 9y ago
The subway in East Berlin was formerly (and is now again) part of the Berlin U-Bahn, which predates Moscow's metro by a good 30 years. So while in a Communist country, it's not really a Communist-era metro.
- MichaelMoser123 9y ago
  not exactly 30 years, the first section of the U-Bahn opened in 1923 and the first section of the Moscow metro opened in 1935 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_U-Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_U-Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro

mvdwoord 9y ago

Those pictures from Prague strongly remind me of some of the metro station architecture in Munich. Some of the stations look like an exact copy, must be because that was also built in the seventies.