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In November 2024, Metro Madrid announced that they had ordered 80 new trainsets from Spanish manufacturer CAF, with a total cost of about €950 million. [72] 40 of these trains will be of the broad loading gauge type; these are to be used on line and will be fully driverless – a first for the Madrid Metro. [73]
This is a list of the stations of the Madrid Metro. Line 1 Pinar ... Feria de Madrid; Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3; Barajas; Aeropuerto T4; Line 9
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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 La Almudena - Las Rosas with 90-metre platforms), linked by 14.1 km of track in a narrow gauge tunnel, with a journey that lasts approximately 33 minutes.
Pitis, however, was the only station on the Madrid metro to have restricted opening times. At the time, Pitis was a very small village, and the station's main purpose is to provide interchange for Renfe services. Between 1999 and 2018, most trains ran between Estadio Olímpico and Lacoma, with Pitis being served by only a few trains each hour.
First on 7 May 1981, the line was extended from Pacifico to Oporto, then on 1 June 1983, the line was extended from Oporto to Laguna. Thirdly the line was extended from Cuatro Caminos to Ciudad Universitaria serving Madrid's Complutense university on 13 January 1987, and lastly the line was extended from Ciudad Universitaria to Laguna on 10 May 1995, completing the circle.
Fuentes de Oñoro–Vilar Formoso, currently in operation but without passenger service. The Surexpreso train, which joined Paris with Hendaye and Madrid through this crossing, was suspended in March 2020. Valencia de Alcántara–Beira Alta, which saw the Trenhotel Lusitania up until the closure of the Portuguese section in 2012. [22]
In the 1990s, Madrid planned for these two lines to become one, but there was a problem in that Line 8 used wider train sets than Line S. As a remedy, Madrid decided to rebuild the Suburbano section to fit the large-profile rolling stock, a project that took five years to complete.