Metro Martín Carrera
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Line 4
Talismán
Metro Talismán
Talismán is a station along Line 4 of the Mexico City Metro, located in Gustavo A. Madero borough.The station logo depicts a stylised image of a mammoth, with raised trunk and tusks. During the construction of this station, the fossilised remains of a mammoth were dug up by an excavation gang....
Metro La Villa-Basílica
La Villa-Basílica is station along Line 6 of the Mexico City Metro.Its logo is the façade of the nearby Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.The station serves the Colonia Aragón and Colonia La Villa neighborhoods. It opened on 8 July 1986....
Line 6
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Metro Martín Carrera is a station
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....
on the Mexico City Metro
Mexico City Metro
The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...
. It is located at the borders of the Colonia Martín Carrera, Colonia 15 de Agosto, and Colonia Díaz Mirón districts in the Gustavo A. Madero
Gustavo A. Madero
Gustavo Adolfo Madero also known to many as "Ojo Pardo" , born in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, Mexico, was a participant in the Mexican Revolution against Porfirio Díaz along with other members of his wealthy family....
borough, in the north of Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. The station logo depicts bust of General Martín Carrera
Martín Carrera
Martín Carrera Sabat was a Mexican general and interim president of the country for about a month in 1855. He was a moderate Liberal....
, a national hero who fought in the Mexican-American War of 1846–48.
Martín Carrera is a both a terminal station and a transfer station, linking Lines 4 and 6, both of which terminate here. Like other terminal stations on the network, this one is multimodal: it connects with suburban bus lines that serve areas including Cerro Gordo, Vía Morelos, and others across the state line in México state. The station also connects with trolleybus
Trolleybus
A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...
line "LL", which runs between the San Felipe de Jesús neighbourhood and Metro Hidalgo
Metro Hidalgo
Metro Hidalgo is a station on Line 2 and Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, west of the city centre, on Hidalgo Avenue and serves the Colonia Tabacalera, Colonia Guerrero, and Colonia Centro districts....
. This station is near the Basílica de Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic shrine and place of pilgrimage.
The station was opened with the others along the northern portion of Line 4 on 29 August 1981. Service along Line 6 started on 8 July 1986.