Red Line may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Films

* ''Red Line'' (1959 film), a Finnish film based on the 1909 novel * ''Red Line'' (1996 film), an American crime drama film * ''Red Line'' (2012 film), an American terrorist thriller film * ''Red Line'', a 2023 Taiwanese action romantic film starring

Ella Chen Ella Chen Chia-hwa (; born 18 June 1981) is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and television host. She is a member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. Musical career On 8 August 2000, HIM International Music held a 'Universal 2000 Talent and Beauty ...

and Alan Ko * ''The Red Line'', a 1982 Iranian film directed by

Masoud Kimiai Masoud Kimiai or Masoud Kimiaei, (, ) (born 29 July 1941) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Without any academic training in cinema or theater, and with only a few years of experience as assistant director, Kimiai ...

Music

* ''Red Line'' (album), by Trans Am, 2000 * "Red Line", by 5 Seconds Of Sunmer song from ''

5SOS5 ''5SOS5'' is the fifth studio album by Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer, released on 23 September 2022 through BMG Rights Management. It was preceded by the release of the singles "Complete Mess", "Take My Hand (5 Seconds of Summer s ...

'' * Red Line (For TA)", a 2009 song by Ayumi Hamasaki, a B-side of " You Were..." * '' The Red Line'', a 1978 opera by Aulis Sallinen based on the 1909 novel

Other media

* ''The Red Line'' (TV series), a 2019 American drama series * ''The Red Line'', a 1909 Finnish novel by

Ilmari Kianto Ilmari Kianto (7 May 1874 – 27 April 1970), also known as Ilmari Calamnius and Ilmari Iki-Kianto, was a Finnish author. He was born in Pulkkila, Northern Ostrobothnia, and is best known for his books ''Punainen viiva'' ("The Red Line", publish ...

on which a film and opera are based

Public transit

Many bus, rail, subway, and tram lines around the world are either officially or colloquially named the "Red Line". These include:

Africa

* Red line (Lagos Transit), Nigeria

Asia

SRT Red Lines The Red Line Mass Transit System Project is a commuter rail system serving the Bangkok Metropolitan Region in Thailand. Construction began in January 2009, and free public trial operation began on 2 August 2021, when Bang Sue Grand Station opene ...

, Bangkok, Thailand ** SRT Dark Red Line **

SRT Light Red Line The SRT Light Red Line, or Nakhon Withi Line () is a between Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal and Taling Chan and is part of the SRT Red Lines suburban railway system serving the greater Bangkok Metropolitan Region. An initial segment from ...

* Chiang Mai light rail transit, Chiang Mai, Thailand *

Line 5 (Chennai Metro) The Red Line or Line 5 is one of the under construction lines of Chennai Metro Phase-II stretching from Madhavaram Milk Colony to Sholinganallur. The long line will consist of 45 stations, out of which six will be underground and 39 will be a ...

, in Chennai, India *

Red Line (Delhi Metro) The Red Line (Line 1) is a rapid transit metro line of the Delhi Metro in Delhi, India. It is mostly an elevated line and has List of Delhi metro stations, 29 stations that runs from Rithala metro station, Rithala to Shaheed Sthal metro station ...

, India *

Red Line (Doha Metro) The Red Line is a rapid transit line of the Doha Metro in Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the ...

, Qatar *

Red Line (Dubai Metro) The Red Line is currently one of two lines of the Dubai Metro network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It runs from Centrepoint (formerly Rashidiya) in the east to Expo 2020 in the west and travels parallel to Sheikh Zayed Road for most of its ...

, United Arab Emirates *

Red Line (Hyderabad Metro) The Red Line is a part of the Hyderabad Metro system in Telangana, India. The line is 29.21 km long and spans 27 stations from Miyapur to LB Nagar. It was funded by a public–private partnership, with the state government holding a minor ...

, India *

Red line (Kaohsiung MRT) The Red line is a metro line of Kaohsiung Metro which runs north–south through the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. At , it is the fourth-longest metro line in Taiwan, after Taoyuan Airport MRT, Tamsui-Xinyi Line and Zhonghe-Xinlu Line. There is ...

, Taiwan *

Red Line (Lucknow Metro) The Red Line (Line 1) () of the Lucknow Metro is a metro route of mass rapid transit system in Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union terr ...

, India *

Red Line (Namma Metro) The Red Line or Hebbal-Sarjapura Line is a proposed metro rail line that will become part of Namma Metro's network in the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Phase-3A of Namma Metro has been planned to become operational around December 2030. ...

, Bangalore, India * Bogor Line of

KA Commuter line Jakarta Kota–Bogor The Bogor Line (formerly known as Central Line, also known as KRL Commuter Line Jakarta Kota–Bogor/Nambo), officially the Bogor Commuter Line, is a commuter rail line in Indonesia, operated by PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (KCI). The line conne ...

, KRL Commuterline, Jakarta, Indonesia *

Line 1 (Beijing Subway) Line 1 of the Beijing Subway () is the oldest and one of the busiest lines of Beijing's mass transit rail network. The line runs underneath Chang'an Avenue, the city's grand east–west thoroughfare, right through the heart of Beijing with stops ...

, China *

Line 1 (Shanghai Metro) Line 1 is a north–south line of the Shanghai Metro. It runs from in the north, via to in the south. The first line to open in the Shanghai Metro system, line 1 serves many important points in Shanghai, including and Xujiahui. Due to the lar ...

, China *

Midōsuji Line The is a rapid transit line in Osaka, Japan, operated by Osaka Metro. Constructed under Midōsuji, a major north-south street, it is the oldest line in the Osaka subway system and the second oldest in Japan, following the Tokyo Metro Ginza L ...

, Osaka, Japan *

North–South MRT line The North–South Line (NSL) is a high-capacity Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line in Singapore, operated by SMRT Corporation. Coloured red on the Singapore rail map, the line is long and serves 27 stations, 11 of ...

, Singapore *

Tamsui–Xinyi line The Tamsui–Xinyi or Red line (code R) is a metro line in Taipei , nickname = The City of Azaleas , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Taiwan#Asia#Pacific Ocean#Earth ...

, Taipei, Taiwan *

Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line The is a Rapid transit, subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tokyo Metro. The line runs in a U-shape between Ogikubo Station in Suginami, Tokyo, Suginami and Ikebukuro Station in Toshima, Tokyo, Toshima, with a branch line between Nakano-Sa ...

, Tokyo, Japan *

Tsuen Wan line The Tsuen Wan line () is one of the ten lines of the rapid transit, metro network in Hong Kong's MTR. It is indicated in on the MTR map. There are 16 stations on the line. The southern terminus is Central station (MTR), Central statio ...

, Hong Kong * Line 1 (Daegu Metro), South Korea *

Shinbundang Line The Shinbundang Line (; literally, ''New Bundang Line'') or DX Line for Dynamic Express Line is a long line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway. It is the world's fifth subway to run completely driverless and the second completely driverless metro ...

, Seoul, South Korea *

Red Line (Jerusalem Light Rail) The Red Line is the first section in operation of the light rail system in Jerusalem, Israel, known as the Jerusalem Light Rail. It became fully operational on December 1, 2011. The original line is long with 23 stops. Extensions to the Red Li ...

, Jerusalem, Israel * Red Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail), Tel Aviv, Israel *

Line 2 (Riyadh Metro) The Red Line () or Line 2 is one of the six lines in the Riyadh Metro network in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It runs east–west along King Abdullah Road, between King Saud University and King Fahd Sports City. The line travels on an elevated strip in ...

, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Europe

Red Line (Luas) The Red Line () is one of the two lines of Dublin's Luas light rail system. The Red Line runs in an east–west direction through the city centre, north of the River Liffey, before travelling southwest to Tallaght, with a fork to Citywest and S ...

, Dublin, Ireland, a tram line * Red Line (Stockholm Metro), Sweden *

Line 2 (Athens Metro) Line 2 of the Athens Metro runs entirely underground from in the northwest to in the south, via . It first opened, between and , on 28 January 2000, with Line 3 (Athens Metro), Line 3. On 6 April 2013, Line 2 was extended to Anthoupoli in t ...

, Greece * Aŭtazavodskaja line, Minsk, Belarus * Barcelona Metro line 1, Spain *

Central line (London Underground) The Central line is a London Underground line that runs between or in the west, and or Hainault Loop, Woodford via Hainault in the north-east, via the West End of London, West End, City of London, the City, and the East End of London, East En ...

, England *

Leninskaya Line Leninskaya Line (), lit. Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 ...

, Novosibirsk, Russia * Line 1 (Kharkiv Metro) aka Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska line, Ukraine * Line 1 (Saint Petersburg Metro), Russia *

Line 2 (Madrid Metro) Line 2 of the Madrid Metro is a rapid transit line in Madrid. It runs through the city center between the Las Rosas and Cuatro Caminos stations, for a total of 20 stations (the Cuatro Caminos - La Elipa section with 60-metre platforms and the ...

, Spain *

Line C (Prague Metro) Line C () is a line on the Prague Metro. It crosses the right-bank half of the city center in the north-south directions and turns to the east at both ends of the line. It is the system's oldest and most used line, being opened in 1974 and tran ...

, Czech Republic *

Lyon Metro Line A Line A () is a line on the Lyon Metro that runs between Perrache and Vaulx-en-Velin–La Soie. It was constructed using the cut-and-cover method, and went into service on 2 May 1978. It, together with Line B, were the inaugural lines of the Lyo ...

, Lyon, France *

Milan Metro Line 1 Line 1 (''Linea Uno'' in Italian) is the first underground rapid transit line built in Milan, Italy. It is part of the Milan Metro and it is operated by ATM. Works on the line began in 1957, and the first part was opened on 1 November 1964, run ...

, Italy *

RER A RER A is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving the city and suburbs of Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List o ...

, Paris, France * Sviatoshynsko–Brovarska line, Kyiv, Ukraine * Sokolnicheskaya line, Moscow, Russia *

Tyne and Wear Metro The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear). The owners Nexus have ...

of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (former line) * Red Line (Lisbon Metro), Portugal *

U2 (Berlin U-Bahn) U2 is a line of the Berlin U-Bahn. The U2 line starts at Pankow S-Bahn station, runs through the eastern city centre (Alexanderplatz) to Potsdamer Platz, the western city centre (Wittenbergplatz, Zoologischer Garten, Theodor-Heuss Platz) and final ...

, Germany

North America

Canada

Red Line (Calgary) The Red Line, also known as Route 201, is a light rail transit (LRT) line in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Together with the Blue Line and future Green Line it makes up Calgary's CTrain network. Following its initial approval in 1976, the Red Line ...

, Alberta * Red Line (Montreal Metro) (proposed) *

Line 1 (O-Train) Line 1 (), also known as the Confederation Line (), is a light rail line operated by OC Transpo in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, part of the city's O-Train system. It opened on September 14, 2019, and is O-Train's second line. It operates on an east� ...

, a light rail line in Ottawa

Mexico

* Red Line (Mexico City Metro) * Red Line (Mexico City Metrobús) * Line 1 of the Guadalajara urban rail system, Guadalajara

United States

* Red Line (Baltimore), Maryland Transit Administration, Maryland (Proposed) *

Red Line (CTA) The Red Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the busiest line on the "L" system, with an average of 108,303 passengers boarding each weekday in 2023 The rout ...

, Chicago, Illinois *

Red Line (DART) The Red Line is a light rail line in Dallas, Texas operated by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system. It began operations in June 1996, and is one of two inaugural light rail lines in the DART light rail system alongside the . Route Westmorela ...

, Texas *

Red Line (IndyGo) The Red Line of IndyGo is a bus rapid transit line serving parts of central, northern, and southern Indianapolis. The first phase of this transit route entered service on September 1, 2019, and was originally free for the first month; the free se ...

, Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana *

Red Line (MARTA) The Red Line is a rapid transit line in the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, MARTA MARTA rail, rail system. It operates between North Springs (MARTA station), North Springs and Airport (MARTA station), Airport stations, running thr ...

(formerly North-South Line), Atlanta, Georgia *

Red Line (MBTA) The Red Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as part of the MBTA subway system. The line runs south and east underground from Alewife station in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, North Cambr ...

, Boston, Massachusetts *

Red Line (Pittsburgh) The Red Line (formerly the 42S South Hills Village via Beechview) is a line on the Pittsburgh Light Rail system that runs between South Hills Village and Downtown Pittsburgh via the Beechview neighborhood. The companion route, the Blue Li ...

, Port Authority, Pennsylvania *

Red Line (RTA Rapid Transit) The Red Line (formerly and internally known as Route 66, also known as the Airport–Windermere Line) is a rapid transit line of the RTA Rapid Transit system in Cleveland, Ohio, running from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport northeast t ...

, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio * Red Line (Sound Transit), Seattle, Washington *

Red Line (St. Louis MetroLink) The Red Line is the older and longer line of the MetroLink (St. Louis), MetroLink light rail system in Greater St. Louis. It serves 29 List of MetroLink (St. Louis) stations, stations across three counties and two states. While officially li ...

, Bi-State Development Agency, Missouri * Red Line (TRAX), Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City area *

Red Line (Washington Metro) The Red Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 27 metro station, stations in Montgomery County, Maryland, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is a primary line through ...

, WMATA, Washington, D.C. *

Red Line (The Vine) The Red Line, also known as The Vine on Mill Plain, is a bus rapid transit (BRT) line in Vancouver, Washington, United States, operated by C-Tran (Washington), C-Tran as part of The Vine (bus rapid transit), The Vine. The route runs from 7th Str ...

, a bus rapid transit line in Vancouver, Washington *

Baltimore Light RailLink The Baltimore Light RailLink (formerly Baltimore Light Rail, also known simply as the "Light Rail") is a light rail system serving Baltimore, Maryland, United States, and its northern and southern suburbs. It is operated by the Maryland Transi ...

for Penn Station – Camden Yards Line aka Red Line, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, Maryland *

B Line (Los Angeles Metro) The B Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2020) is a fully underground rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between North Hollywood, Los Angeles, North Hollywood and Los Angeles Union Station, Union Station in Downtown Los ...

, California, until 2020 formerly named the "Red Line" *

Capital MetroRail CapMetro Rail is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) system that serves the Greater Austin area in Texas and is owned by CapMetro, Austin's primary public transportation provider. The Red Line is CapMetro's f ...

, Austin, Texas * F Line (RTD), aka Red Line, Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado *

IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line. It is one of several lines that serves the A Division, stretching from South Ferry in Lower Manhatt ...

in New York City, colored red, serving the 1, 2, and 3 trains * Lynx Red Line, North Carolina *

MAX Red Line The MAX Red Line is a light rail line serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Operated by TriMet as part of MAX Light Rail, it is an airport rail link connecting Hillsboro, Oregon, Hillsboro, Beaverton, Oregon, Beavert ...

, Tri-Met, Portland, Oregon *

Metro Red Line (Minnesota) The Metro Red Line is a bus rapid transit line between the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Twin Cities suburbs of Bloomington, Minnesota and Apple Valley, Minnesota. The Red Line travels primarily on Minnesota State Highway 77 and Cedar Avenue from the ...

, METRO/Minnesota Valley Transit Authority, suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota area *

METRORail Red Line The Red Line is one of three light rail routes on the METRORail network operated by METRO in Houston, Texas. It is the oldest line in the METRORail system, with the first section of the line between Fannin South and UH–Downtown opening on J ...

, Houston, Texas *

PATCO Speedline The PATCO Speedline, signed as the Lindenwold Line in Philadelphia and commonly referred to as the PATCO High Speed Line, is a rapid transit route operated by the Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO), connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...

, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Rapid Ride Route 766 Red Line, ABQ RIDE, Albuquerque, New Mexico *

Red Line (BART) The Red Line is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) line in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs between Richmond station (California), Richmond station and Millbrae station via San Francisco International Airport station. It has 24 stations in Ric ...

, Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco Bay Area, California * Special Event Line (San Diego Trolley), SDMTS, San Diego, California *

T Third Street The T Third Street is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco, California. It runs along the east side of San Francisco from to , traveling in the median of Third Street for most of its length before entering the Central Subway as it a ...

, MUNI, San Francisco, California *

Valley Metro Rail Valley Metro Rail is a light rail system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, USA. The network, which is part of the Valley Metro public transit system, began operations on December 27, 2008. In , the system had a ridership of , ...

, aka METRO Light Rail Red Line, Phoenix, Arizona

South America

Line 3 (São Paulo Metro) Line 3 (Red) () is one of the six lines that make up the São Paulo Metro and one of the thirteen lines that make up the Metropolitan Rail Transportation Network. It runs between Palmeiras-Barra Funda and Corinthians-Itaquera. It was formerly c ...

, São Paulo, Brazil * Red Line (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil, an expressway

Other uses

Red line (phrase) The red line, or "to cross the red line", is a phrase used worldwide to mean a figurative point of no return or line in the sand, or "the fastest, farthest, or highest point or degree considered safe." Origins The origin of the phrase in English ...

, a figurative phrase used in English and Hebrew meaning a limit past which something shouldn't cross safely ** Red lines in the Russo-Ukrainian War *

Red line (hockey) An ice hockey rink is an ice rink that is specifically designed for ice hockey, a competitive team sport. Alternatively it is used for other sports such as broomball, ringette, rinkball, and rink bandy. It is a rectangle with rounded corners and ...

, the center of the playing surface on an ice hockey rink * Red Line (Namibia), a pest-exclusion fence separating Northern Namibia from the central and southern parts * Red Line, the military line of defense in

Operation Manta Operation Manta was a French military intervention in Chad between 1983 and 1984, during the Chadian–Libyan conflict. The operation was prompted by the invasion of Chad by a joint force of Libyan units and Chadian Transitional Government of N ...

, along the 15th and later 16th parallel north, of the Chadian-Libyan Conflict *

All Red Line The All Red Line was a system of electrical telegraphs that linked much of the British Empire. It was inaugurated on 31 October 1902. The informal name derives from the common practice of colouring the territory of the British Empire red or p ...

, a network of telegraph cables linking the British Empire *

Red Line Agreement The Red Line Agreement is an agreement signed by partners in the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC) on July 31, 1928, in Ostend, Belgium. The agreement was signed between the Anglo-Persian Company (later renamed British Petroleum), Royal Dutch/Sh ...

, an agreement signed by partners in the Turkish Petroleum Company in 1928 * Red Line Synthetic Oil Corporation, an oil manufacturer for automotive and other performance applications * Red Line, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Operation Red Line, a planned Indian military operation {{Color lines (dab), additional= * Redline (disambiguation) *

The Thin Red Line (disambiguation) The Thin Red Line may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Thin Red Line'' (painting), an 1881 painting of the Battle of Balaclava by Robert Gibb * ''The Thin Red Line'' (novel), a 1962 novel by James Jones ** ''The Thin Red Line'' (1964 fi ...

* Red telephone line (disambiguation) * Red Belt (Pittsburgh) *

Red route On United Kingdom roads, the term red route may refer to a stretch of road with painted red lines signifying that vehicles cannot stop there, or to a road which has historically high accident rates. Painted lines Red routes are major roads wit ...

* Lal Dora or Red Line, type of land in India * Punainen viiva (disambiguation)