Purple Line may refer to:

Public transit

Asia

India

Line 3 (Chennai Metro) The Purple Line or Line 3 is one of the under construction lines of Chennai Metro Phase-II stretching from Madhavaram Milk Colony to SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri SIPCOT. The long line will consist of 47 stations, out of which 28 will be undergrou ...

, Purple Line, Chennai, India * Purple Line (Namma Metro), Bangalore, India * Purple Line (Kolkata Metro), India *

Purple Line (Pune Metro) Line 1 (Purple Line) of the Pune Metro is the first line of the city's mass transit network.Purple Line (Bangkok) The MRT Purple line () or MRT Chalong Ratchadham line () is Bangkok's fifth rapid transit line, following the Sukhumvit Line, Silom Line, Blue Line, and Airport Rail Link. The line is long, serving the north-western area of Bangkok running ...

, Thailand * Purple Line (Dubai Metro), Dubai Metro *

Tseung Kwan O line The Tseung Kwan O line () is one of the ten lines of the MTR system in Hong Kong. It is currently long, taking 15 minutes to travel throughout the entire line. It is indicated in on the MTR map. The line runs from North Point on the ...

, Hong Kong * Line 6 (Riyadh Metro), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Also referred to as Violet Line *

Seoul Subway Line 5 Seoul Subway Line 5 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway, dubbed ''the purple line'', is a long line crossing from west to the east across the Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea. It is one of two subway lines in Seoul to cross ''under'' the Han ...

, Seoul, South Korea *

North East MRT line The North East Line (NEL) is a high-capacity Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Singapore. Operated by SBS Transit, the line is the MRT's shortest. It runs from HarbourFront MRT station, HarbourFront station in ...

, Singapore *

Taoyuan Airport MRT Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), commonly known as the Airport MRT, is a rapid transit line of the Taoyuan Metro that connects Taipei, Taoyuan and New Taipei with Taoyuan International Airport in northern Taiwan. ...

, Taoyuan, Taiwan * Purple Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail), light-rail line under construction in Tel Aviv, Israel

United Kingdom

Sheffield Supertram The South Yorkshire Supertram, sometimes referred to as the Sheffield Supertram, is a tram and tram-train network covering Sheffield and Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. The network is owned and operated by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Co ...

Purple Line, a tram line in Sheffield, England *

Elizabeth Line The Elizabeth line is a railway line that runs across Greater London and nearby towns, operating similarly to the Réseau Express Régional, RER in Paris and the S-Bahn systems of German-speaking countries. It runs services on dedicated infras ...

, London, England

Germany

U6 (Berlin U-Bahn) U6 is a long rapid transit line on the Berlin U-Bahn with 29 stations. It runs in a north-south direction from the Berlin locality of Tegel in the north via Friedrichstraße to Mariendorf, a locality in the southern part of the city. It is one ...

, Berlin

North America

Purple Line (CTA) The Purple Line of the Chicago "L" is a route on the northernmost section of the system. The service normally begins from in Wilmette and ends at on Chicago's north border, passing through the city of Evanston. During weekday rush hours, th ...

, an elevated train line in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. *

Purple Line (Maryland) The Purple Line is a light rail line being built to link several Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.: Bethesda, Silver Spring, College Park, and New Carrollton. Currently slated to open in late 2027, the line will also enable riders to mo ...

, a light rail line currently under construction in Maryland counties bordering Washington, D.C. * Purple Line (Mexico City Metro), Mexico * Purple Line (Mexico City Metrobús), Mexico *

Purple Line (San Diego Trolley) The Purple Line is a commuter rail line proposed by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) as part of the San Diego Trolley system. It would run from San Ysidro Transit Center at the Mexico–United States border to Kearny Mesa with ...

, a proposed light rail line in San Diego County, California, U.S. * Purple Line (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * LYNX Purple Line, a proposed commuter rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina *

E Line (RTD) The E Line is a light rail line which is part of the rail system operated by the Regional Transportation District in the Denver metropolitan area in Colorado. The line was added to the system on November 17, 2006, with the completion of the Sou ...

, a light rail line in and near Denver, Colorado, U.S. *

IRT Flushing Line The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, ...

, a rapid transit line in New York City, serving the 7 <7> trains *

MBTA Commuter Rail The MBTA Commuter Rail system serves as the commuter rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA's) transportation coverage of Greater Boston in the United States. Trains run over of track on 12 lines to 142 stations. It ...

or Purple Line, in the Boston area, Massachusetts, U.S. *

Norristown High Speed Line The M, formerly known as the Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL), is a interurban light rapid transit line in the SEPTA Metro network, running between the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby and the Norristown Transportation Center ...

or Purple Line, an interurban light rapid transit line near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. *

Line 4 Sheppard Line 4 Sheppard is the newest and shortest rapid transit line of the Toronto subway system, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). It opened on November 22, 2002, and has five metro station, stations along of track, which is built ...

, a subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada *

Viva Purple Viva Purple is a line on the Viva bus rapid transit system in York Region, Ontario, Canada. The route primarily runs in an east–west direction along a dedicated right-of-way, dubbed the '' Highway 7 Rapidway'', in Markham and Richmond Hill. ...

, a bus rapid transit line in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada *

D Line (Los Angeles Metro) The D Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2006 and the Purple Line from 2006–2020) is a currently out-of-service fully underground rapid transit line in Los Angeles, California, running for between Koreatown and Downtown Los Angeles. It ...

, a subway line in Los Angeles, California * Metro Purple Line (Minnesota), a bus rapid transit line in Saint Paul, Minnesota *

SFO–Millbrae line The SFO–Millbrae line (also known as the SFO–Millbrae shuttle) was a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shuttle train, shuttle line in the San Francisco Bay Area that ran between Millbrae station and San Francisco International Airport station ( ...

, former rapid transit line serving San Francisco International Airport, California, U.S. * Purple Line (VTA), former light rail line in San Jose, California

Road transportation

* Purple Belt (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Other uses

Purple Line (ceasefire line) The Purple Line was the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria after the 1967 Six-Day War which serves as the de facto border between the two countries. In 2024 following the fall of Ba'athist Syria, Israel broke the Purple Line during its i ...

, the 1967 ceasefire line on the Golan Heights * "Purple Line" (song), a 2008 song by TVXQ *'' The Purple Line'', the debut novel of Indian author, Priyamvada N Purushotham *

Line of purples In color theory, the line of purples or purple boundary is the locus on the edge of the chromaticity diagram formed between extreme spectral red and violet. Except for these endpoints of the line, colors on the line are non-spectral (no mono ...

, a part of the CIE chromaticity diagram {{Color lines (dab), additional= *

, a concept in color theory