1.   As a literary exercise, it was not the first subway endurance test.

2.   A group of German companies led by Siemens already has won the contract to build the first subway line and construction is to start in November.

3.   Some of the buses have already arrived and the first subway cars are scheduled to be delivered by the start of next year.

4.   The Blue Line was the first subway line in the world to travel under the ocean blue.

5.   This is the first subway concession to be sold.

6.   Cult leader Shoko Asahara and other top cult officials have been charged with murder for planning or carrying out the first subway gas attack.

7.   Earlier this week, Taylor Woodrow was part of a consortium which concluded an agreement with the Indonesian government to build and operate the first subway system in Jakarta.

8.   The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will open its first subway in June, it was reported Friday.

9.   Shanghai opened its first ring road last December, which had helped ease traffic congestion, and its first subway in April.