MISC | Colours used to identify your city's metro lines

[alserrod]

At Zaragoza there is no metro, only tramway, and only one line (see thread).

But one curious thing about this... 20 years ago, before buses had an electronic pannel with number and destination, they had a fix normal pannel.
To help people, they were always different coulours. Black over white, black over yellow, dark blue over yellow, red over white...
Not all blue, white or yellow where the same and helped too much to notice if it was the bus you were waiting when approaching. It was enough to see the combination of colours.

[mopc]

In Sao Paulo we have two networks, the CMSP 'Metro' network uses colors with numbers:

1- Blue
2 - Green
3 - Red
4 - Yellow
5 - Lilac
6 - Orange (planned)

The CPTM Network (Suburban Metro) uses Gems with numbers:

7 - Rubi
8 - Diamond
9 - Emerald
10 - Turquoise
11 - Coral
12 - Saphire

Until 2007, CPTM lines were known as letters, from A to , in the order above.

[Clery]

Originally Posted by Minato ku

This is the official color of the 16 metro lines of Paris metro.


Date when colors were given by line.

Line 1: Buttercup, 1983
Line 2: Azure, 1982
Line 3: Olive, 1988
Line 3bis: Periwinkle, 1988
Line 4: Mauve, 1988
Line 5: Orange, 1988
Line 6: Mint, 1988
Line 7: Rose, 1982
Line 7bis: Mint, 2000
Line 8: Lilac, 1995
Line 9: Acacia, 1984
Line 10: Ochre, 1983
Line 11: Chestnut: 1979
Line 12: Fir tree, 1997
Line 13: Periwinkle, 1988
Line 14: Iris, 1998

Yes. 6 and 7bis share the same colour as well as 3bis and 13. It should be noted though that lines sharing the same colours are very distant of one another and of course doesn't share any connexion.

The 5 RER lines have different colours which are distinct from metro lines colours. And the funny thing is that, despite being more recent, RER lines have more standard colours than the metro:


Line A: red
Line B: blue
Line C: yellow
Line D: green
Line E: magenta

We can imagine that if there were a line F, it would logically be cyan.

[Minato ku]

The RER network had official color by lines since its opening in 1977, so before any metro line.

[Falubaz]

It's weird in Paris there isn't red line, which usually is the first color in other metros.

[Alargule]

That color is for RER line A, which could well be argued to be the single most important Parisian railway line.