INSET: CENTRAL MADRID
Chronology of major track abandonments between 1958 and 1964
- Most of the Calle de Velázquez: 2 Apr. 1958
- The Princesa - Palacio Real area: 20 Aug. 1958
- On the last remaining route in the city centre (Calle de Atocha) and on Alcalá between Independencia and Goya: 10 Sept. 1958
- On Calle de Goya and on Alcalá between Goya and Becerra: 9 Aug. 1959
- On the Paseo de La Habana (Line No.7): 15 Aug. 1959
- On the Ciudad Jardín route and on Alfonso XIII: 18 Feb. 1962
- On Trafalgar and the Atocha - Puente de Vallecas segment: 9 Aug. 1962
- On Santa Engracia: 14 Sept. 1963
- On the SW suburban routes to Cuatro Vientos, using the Puente de Segovia: 18 Aug. - 5 Sept. 1963
- What was left of the SW network in the Puerta de Toledo area and of the suburban route to Carabanchel Alto: 21-28 July 1964
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 – Ciudad Lineal – San Blas |
| 2 | Moncloa – Paraninfo (Universidad) |
| 3 | Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Colegio de la Paloma – Valdezarza – Peña Grande |
| 5 | Ventas – Pueblo Nuevo – Ciudad Lineal – San Blas |
| 8 | Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Tetuán – Plaza de Castilla – Fuencarral |
| 11 | Quevedo – Cuatro Caminos – Estrecho – Colegio de la Paloma |
| 12 | Pueblo Nuevo – Ciudad Lineal – Canillejas – Ciudad Pegaso |
| 14 | Carlos V (Atocha) – Museo del Prado – Cibeles – Colón – Castellana – Nuevos Ministerios – Plaza de Castilla – Fuencarral |
| 37 | Carlos V (Atocha) – Legazpi – Usera – Plaza Elíptica |
| 61 | Moncloa – Quevedo – Iglesia – Castellana – Diego de León – Conde de Peñalver – Goya – Narváez |
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: 108 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
- 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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