INSET: DOWNTOWN MADRID
Chronology of major track abandonments and route number changes between 1964 and 1967
- Atocha - Usera (route 37) and Atocha - Cibeles (part of route 14): 1 Aug. 1965
- Complete renumbering of routes: 1 Aug. 1965
- Cibeles - Colón (part of route 74): 11 Sept. 1966
- Quevedo - Cuatro Caminos (part of route 76): 19 Dec. 1966
ROUTES
TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Sociedad Madrileña de Tranvías (S.M.T.) (predecessor of Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (E.M.T.))
| 70 |
Plaza de Castilla – Chamartín – Ciudad Lineal – San Blas |
| 71 |
Moncloa – Quevedo – Iglesia – Castellana – Diego de León – Conde de Peñalver – Goya – Narváez |
| 72 |
Moncloa – Paraninfo (Universidad) |
| 73 |
Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Colegio de la Paloma – Valdezarza – Peña Grande |
| 74 |
Colón – Castellana – Nuevos Ministerios – Plaza de Castilla – Fuencarral |
| 75 |
Ventas – Pueblo Nuevo – Ciudad Lineal – San Blas |
| 76 |
Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Colegio de la Paloma |
| 77 |
Pueblo Nuevo – Ciudad Lineal – Canillejas – Ciudad Pegaso |
| 78 |
Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Tetuán – Plaza de Castilla – Fuencarral |
UNDERGROUND (METRO) ROUTES
Operator: Compañía Metropolitana de Madrid
| 1 |
Plaza de Castilla – Tetuán – Cuatro Caminos – Bilbao – Sol – Atocha – Puente de Vallecas – Portazgo |
| 2 |
Cuatro Caminos – Quevedo – Ópera – Sol – Cibeles (Banco de España) – Goya – Ventas – Pueblo Nuevo – Ciudad Lineal |
| 3 |
Moncloa – Argüelles – Pl. de España – Sol – Embajadores – Delicias – Legazpi |
| 4 |
Argüelles – San Bernardo – Bilbao – Colón – Goya – Diego de León |
| R |
Ópera – Estación del Norte [Shuttle] |
| S |
[Suburbano] Plaza de España – Estación del Norte – Campamento – Carabanchel |
Note: Line S (also known as Suburbano), constructed by the state and opened on 4 Feb. 1961, was owned by a different entity, but managed by the Compañía Metropolitana de Madrid
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramways: 93 km.
- Metro: ? 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
PRINT
- 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.
- Zurita, F. "Madrid", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Review, Feb. 1966 (29:338), p.70.
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