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Above: YouTubeCA video - Madrid Metro 1986 with great sounds of old trains - Length: 14:14 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Madrid y el Tranvia - Length: 11:51 mins. |
PHOTOS
MAPS
INSET: CENTRAL MADRID
ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS
AM | Alonso Martínez | PT | Puerta de Toledo |
CF | Calle del Ferrocarril | RA | Ruiz de Alda |
MP | Museo del Prado | SF | San Francisco |
PC | Plaza de la Cebada | TM | Tirso de Molina |
PS | Puente de Segovia |
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ROUTES
TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Sociedad Madrileña de Tranvías (S.M.T.) (predecessor of Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (E.M.T.))
1 | Plaza de Castilla – Chamartín – Pueblo Nuevo |
3 | Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Colegio de la Paloma – Valdezarza – Peña Grande |
4 | Legazpi – Delicias – Atocha – Goya – Ventas |
5 | Manuel Becerra – Ventas – Pueblo Nuevo |
6 | Pueblo Nuevo – San Blas |
7 | Cibeles – Colón – Castellana – Nuevos Ministerios – Chamartín |
8 | Plaza de Castilla – Fuencarral |
9 | Plaza de España – Estación del Norte – Bombilla |
10 | Quevedo – Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Tetuán – Plaza de Castilla |
11 | Quevedo – Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Colegio de la Paloma |
12 | Ventas – Pueblo Nuevo – Canillejas |
14 | Cibeles – Colón – Castellana – Nuevos Ministerios – Plaza de Castilla |
17 | Cuatro Caminos – Quevedo – Bilbao – Colón – Cibeles – Museo del Prado – Atocha – Puente de Vallecas |
31 | Plaza de la Cebada – Puerta de Toledo – Paseo Imperial – Pirámides – Puente de Toledo – Carretera de Fuenlabrada – Carabanchel Bajo – Carabanchel Alto |
32 | Plaza de la Cebada – Puerta de Toledo – Paseo Imperial – Pirámides – Puente de Toledo – Legazpi |
34 | Embajadores – Pirámides – Puente de Toledo – Carretera de Fuenlabrada – Carabanchel Bajo |
37 | Atocha – Delicias – Legazpi – Usera – Plaza Elíptica |
38 | Carretera de Fuenlabrada – Hospital Militar |
40 | Quevedo – Iglesia – Castellana – C. de López de Hoyos – Ciudad Jardín |
45 | Cuatro Caminos – Iglesia – Castellana – Colón – Cibeles – Museo del Prado – Atocha – Delicias |
50 | Moncloa – Argüelles – Plaza de España – San Francisco – Plaza de la Cebada |
52 | Tirso de Molina – Atocha – Puerta de Alcalá – Goya – Narváez |
53 | Estación del Norte – Puente de Segovia – Alto de Extremadura – Campamento – Cuatro Vientos |
54 | Estación del Norte – Puente de Segovia – Alto de Extremadura – Campamento |
55 | Estación del Norte – Puente de Segovia – Alto de Extremadura |
56 | Embajadores – Puerta de Toledo – Paseo Imperial – Puente de Segovia – Alto de Extremadura |
60 | Atocha – Embajadores – Puerta de Toledo – Paseo Imperial – Estación del Norte – Bombilla |
61 | Moncloa – Quevedo – Iglesia – Castellana – Diego de León – Goya – Narváez |
63 | Alonso Martínez – Iglesia – Cuatro Caminos – Gaztambide |
71 | Diego de León – Goya – Puerta de Alcalá – Atocha – Embajadores – Puerta de Toledo [back: Pirámides] - Puente de Toledo |
80 | Ruiz de Alda – C. de López de Hoyos – Velázquez – Puerta de Alcalá – Atocha – Delicias – Calle del Ferrocarril |
C | Plaza de la Cebada – Puerta de Toledo – Embajadores – Atocha – Puerta de Alcalá – Goya – Diego de León – Castellana – Iglesia – Quevedo – Moncloa – Argüelles – Plaza de España – San Francisco – Plaza de la Cebada [Circular route, both directions] |
SE | Moncloa – Paraninfo (Universidad) |
UNDERGROUND (METRO) ROUTES
Operator: Compañía Metropolitana de Madrid
1 | Tetuán – Cuatro Caminos – Bilbao – Sol – Tirso de Molina – Atocha – Puente de Vallecas |
2 | Cuatro Caminos – Quevedo – Ópera – Sol – Cibeles (Banco de España) – Goya – Ventas / Diego de León |
3 | Argüelles – Pl. de España – Sol – Embajadores – Delicias – Legazpi |
4 | Argüelles – San Bernardo – Bilbao – Colón – Goya |
R | Ópera – Estación del Norte [Shuttle] |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramways: ? km.
- Metro: 28 km.
HISTORY
- Urban tramways (broad gauge): (horse-drawn) 31 May 1871 - 10 Jan. 1906; (electric): 2 Oct. 1898 - 2 June 1972.
- Urban tramways (narrow gauge): (steam) 29 June 1879 - 29 June 1931; (electric) 22 June 1901 - 6 Oct. 1934.
- LRT (Metro ligero) lines: 24 May 2007 - today.
- Parla tramway: 6 May 2007 - today.
- Suburban tramways (C.M.U.): (horse-drawn) 26 July 1899 - 1902?; (steam) 1902 - ? ; (electric) 18 Apr. 1909 - 31 Dec. 1951 (taken over by the municipal lines).
- Metro lines: 17 Oct. 1919 - today.
GAUGE
- Urban tramways (broad gauge): 1435 mm.
- Urban tramways (narrow gauge): 1000 mm.
- Light rail lines (Metro ligero): 1435 mm.
- Parla tramway: 1435 mm.
- Suburban tramways: 1435 mm.
- Metro: 1445 mm.
SOURCES
- López Bustos, C. Tranvías de Madrid [Madrid tramways] Madrid: Edimat, 1998.
- Pulling, N. "Madrid: An example of rapid growth", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2011 (74: 885), p.346-349.
- Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.117: Madrid, Spain", Tramways & Urban Transit, July 2017 (80: 955), p.265-269.
- Zurita, F. "Madrid", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Review, Feb. 1966 (29:338), p.70.
WIKIS
- Cercanías Madrid [Madrid commuter railways]
- Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid
- Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (E.M.T.)
- Metro de Madrid
- Transporte en Madrid
- Tranvía de Parla
WEB SITES
- Compañias de tranvías de Madrid
- Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (E.M.T.)
- Historia del transporte en Madrid
- Madrid (on UrbanRail.Net)
- El tranvía de Parla
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