Line 10 (Madrid Metro)
Encyclopedia
Hospital Infanta Sofía
Reyes Católicos
Baunatal
Manuel de Falla
Marqués de la Valdavia
La Moraleja
La Granja
Fare B1
Ronda de la Comunicación
Las Tablas
Montecarmelo
Change trains
Tres Olivos
Fuencarral
Begoña
Chamartín
Plaza de Castilla
Cuzco
Santiago Bernabéu
Santiago Bernabéu (Metro de Madrid)
Santiago Bernabéu is a metro station outside the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain.- External links :*...

Nuevos Ministerios
Gregorio Marañón
Alonso Martínez
Tribunal
Plaza de España
Príncipe Pío
Lago
Batán
Casa de Campo
Colonia Jardín
Aviación Española
Cuatro Vientos
Start MetroSur fare
Joaquín Vilumbrales
  
Puerta del Sur
End MetroSur fare


Line 10 of the Madrid Metro
Madrid Metro
The Madrid Metro is a metro system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the sixth longest metro in the world though Madrid is approximately the fiftieth most populous metropolitan area in the world...

 is in fact the product of two lines, the former line 8 from Fuencarral to Nuevos Ministerios
Nuevos Ministerios Station
Nuevos Ministerios is a large station serving lines 6, 8 and 10 of the Madrid Metro. It is a regional commuter railways station too, on lines C-2, C-3, C-4, C-7, C-8 and C-10.This station opened on 21 May 2002...

 and the former Suburbano (also known as Line S) from Alonso Martínez to Aluche, this section being named line 10 in the 1980s. In the 1990s, Madrid planned for these two lines to become one, but there was a problem. Line 8 was large profile and Line S was Small profile, so Madrid decided it was going to rebuild the Suburbano section to fit large profile rolling stock, a feat that took five years to complete. During this process, all island platforms were demolished, tunnels were widened, platforms cut back and stations modernised. Also a new section between Alonso Martinez and Nuevos Ministerios had to be built, with an intermediate station at Gregorio Marañón. Finally once this was all finished, the whole line could use large rolling stock and the line was extended from the New Casa de Campo to Colonia Jardín. The section between Casa de Campo and Aluche was handed over to line 5 which now terminates at Casa de Campo.

On 11 April 2003, Line 10 was extended to Puerta del Sur where it meets Line 12 (also known as Metro-Sur). The last two stations on this extension are in fact outside Madrid and in the town of Alcorcón
Alcorcón
Alcorcón is a city in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain; , it had a population of 168,229. It is located 13 km to the south-west of Madrid....

. Joaquín Vilumbrales is also unique to this line and it is one of the few stations to have an island platform instead of side platforms. On the 22 December 2006, Aviación Española was opened on the existing line between Colonia Jardín and Cuatro Vientos. This station was opened to serve the nearby Aircraft Museum, which the station is named after. On 26 April 2007, the line was extended north from Fuencarral to Hospital del Norte (Hospital Infanta Sofía as of August 2008). The station after Fuencarral, Tres Olivos is a transfer station between the regular Line 10A, and Line 10B, which is the part between Tres Olivos and Hospital Infanta Sofía. The line links the towns of Alcobendas
Alcobendas
Alcobendas is a city located in the Community of Madrid, central Spain. It is located roughly 13 km north of Madrid and 7 km from the Barajas International Airport. It includes a central urban zone, a recently built district known as Valdelasfuentes, La Moraleja and El Soto de la...

 and San Sebastián de los Reyes
San Sebastián de los Reyes
San Sebastián de los Reyes is a municipality in the Community of Madrid in Spain. Founded in 1492, it is located 20 km north of Madrid. The city is twinned with Baunatal in Germany. It is geographically joined with neighboring Alcobendas and they share a common RENFE commuter line to Madrid Atocha...

with Madrid. Proposed plans for Line 10 include the building of a new station between Colonia Jardín and Aviación Española called Dario Gazapo. Also there are plans to extend the line from Puerta del Sur to Mostoles Central and further onto the new Xanadu Shopping Centre. However this is unlikely because Metro Sur already reaches Mostoles from Puerta Del Sur, but via Alcorcón.

Line 10A uses 6-car trains of class 7000, and line 10B uses 3 car trains of class 9000.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK