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Seville Metro
Puerta Jerez station
Puerta Jerez station
Overview
Native nameMetro de Sevilla
OwnerAutonomous Government of Andalusia
LocaleSeville, Andalusia, Spain
Transit typeLight metro
Number of lines1 finished
1 in construction
2 planned
Number of stations22
Daily ridership55,970 (2023)
Annual ridership20.4 million (2023)
WebsiteMetro Sevilla (in English)
Operation
Began operation2 April 2009; 15 years ago (2009-04-02)
Operator(s)Metro de Sevilla Sociedad Concesionaria de la Junta de Andalucía S.A.[1]
Number of vehicles21 CAF Urbos 2
Technical
System length18 km (11 mi)[2]
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification750 V DC overhead catenary
Top speed70 km/h (43 mph)
System map

The Seville Metro (Spanish: Metro de Sevilla) is an 18-kilometre (11 mi) light metro[3] network serving the city of Seville, Spain and its metropolitan area. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All stations are provided with platform screen doors.

Line 1 was inaugurated on 2 April 2009. Three more lines are planned to be built. Construction of Line 3 began in 2023 and is expected to be completed in 2030.

It was the sixth Metro system to be built in Spain, after those in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Palma de Mallorca. Currently, it is the fifth biggest Metro company in Spain by number of passengers carried – it carried over 20 million passengers in 2023.[4]

History

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Original project

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In 1968, the City Council of Seville already stated that surface transportation was insufficient to meet the mobility demands of citizens due to the growing development of private transport in the area. The Council proposed to build a metro system in the following decade.

On 30 July 1969, the City Council approved a study that received support from the Ministry of Public Works. The Ministry then put out a tender for the drafting of the project, which was selected in September 1972. This first project proposed that the network length would be 27.2 km with 32 stations in three lines, covering only the city of Seville:

  • Line 1:: La Plata, Puerta Jerez, Plaza Nueva, Plaza del Duque, Alameda, Macarena, Pino Montano.
  • Line 2:: Santa Clara, Polígono San Pablo, Alhóndiga, Plaza del Duque, Marqués de Paradas, El Tardón, Rubén Darío.
  • Line 3:: Heliópolis, San Bernardo, Menéndez y Pelayo, Recaredo, Macarena, Cartuja.

Experimental construction began in mid-1974, with definitive construction beginning in April 1976. On 4 November 1981, the monument to San Fernando in Plaza Nueva sank, raising concerns to citizens. A few months later, on 28 March 1982, a 5 metres (16 ft) sinkhole appeared in Puerta Jerez station, and later that year, some cracks appeared in several buildings in the San Bernardo neighborhood.

These events sparked public alarm and encouraged a campaign against the progress of the metro project, leading to the suspension of the works in 1984 in the midst of a budget restructuring of the newly created Junta de Andalucía, which preferred to build other, more popular infrastructure projects in Andalusia.[5]

Revised metro project

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First metro project

In 1999, fifteen years after the works were halted, PSOE and Partido Andalucista reached an agreement to reactivate construction, citing technological advances and considerable population growth as the reasons. A new study project was ordered by the Junta de Andalucía, planning a network covering Seville and its metropolitan area (over 1.5 million inhabitants) formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.

Construction of Line 1 began in 2003. Although it was scheduled to be completed in 2006, it only began operation on 2 April 2009.[2]

Enlargement

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After Line 1 was inaugurated in 2009, Seville Metro projects were halted due to the global financial crisis that severely struck Spain. Over the following years, projects for the construction of new lines were requested, but they were never completed.

In 2018, government officials came to an agreement to build line 3 of the metro system next, as this line would only cross the city of Seville, thus requiring less permissions.[6] Line 3 officially began construction in February 2023, although just the northern half of it, since the southern half still does not have an approved project. Line 3 is expected to be inaugurated in 2030.[7]

In October 2024, Seville Metro updated its logo and corporate image.[8]

System

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Nervión station
San Bernardo station
Plaza de Cuba station
   Metro de Sevilla
Line     Terminals       Length     Stations     In service     Opened  
Ciudad Expo
Olivar Quintos
18 km
22
21
2 April 2009

Line 1

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Main article: Seville Metro line 1
  • Line 1, West-South
    • Character: Underground
    • Stations: 22
    • Length: 18 km (11 mi)
    • Start of the work: Late 2003
    • Completion of the work: April 2009
    • Licence holder: Grupo ACS, Grupo SyV, GEA 21, AOPJA, CAF

In 2019 the busiest stations on Line 1 were Puerta Jerez (2,139,000), San Bernardo (1,393,000) and Nervión (1,385,000).[9]

Rolling stock

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The Seville Metro fleet consists of 17 articulated low-floor Urbos 2 light rail vehicles (LRVs) manufactured by CAF. The Urbos 2 LRVs are 31 metres (101 ft 8+1⁄2 in) long, 2.65 metres (8 ft 8+3⁄8 in) wide, and 3.3 metres (10 ft 9+7⁄8 in) tall, with a total 6 doors on each side. The capacity of each LRV vehicle is of 192 passengers, of which 60 would be seated and 132 standing. The Urbos 2 LRVs have air conditioning. LRVs are powered by an overhead catenary at 750 V DC.[10]

Fares

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Fares are based on a zone system with three fare zones on the currently operating Line 1. A single one-way trip that crosses zero zone boundaries costs 1.35€, one zone boundary 1.6€, and two zone boundaries 2.8€.[11] A variety of additional ticket types are available, such as a day pass and round-trip tickets. Tickets can be reused and refilled with additional fare at automated ticket machines in stations.

Future service

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The total planned Seville Metro network is of four lines, for which no construction has taken place since the Spanish economic crisis [when?]. The next line to be opened is the north-south Line 3, which began construction in April 2024.[12]

   Metro de Sevilla
Line     Terminals       Length     Stations     In service     Opened  
Torreblanca
Puerta Triana
13.4 km
18
0
-
 Pino Montano
Bermejales
11.5 km
17
0
-
 Circular line
17.7 km
24
0
-

Line 2 (in planning phase)

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Main article: Seville Metro line 2
  • Line 2, West-East
    • Type: Underground
    • Stops: 18
    • Length: 13.4 km.
    • Number of trains:
    • Start of the works: -
    • End of the works: -
    • Licence holder:

Line 3 (under construction)

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  • Line 3, North-South
    • Type: Underground
    • Stops: 17[13]
    • Length: 11.5 km.[13]
    • Number of trains:
    • Start of the works: 2024[12]
    • End of the works: 2030
    • Licence holder:

Line 4 (in planning phase)

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  • Line 4, circular
    • Type: Underground
    • Stops: 24
    • Length: 17.7 km.
    • Number of trains:
    • Start of the works: -
    • End of the works: -
    • Licence holder:

Tram lines

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Main article: MetroCentro (Seville)
  • MetroCentro (Seville)|MetroCentro (T1), surface tram through the centre of Seville: Street level.
    • Stops: Plaza Nueva, Archivo de Indias, San Fernando and Prado de San Sebastián.
    • Length: 2.7 kilometres
    • Number of trains: 7 (manufactured by CAF).
    • Start of the works: Mid 2005.
    • End of the works: Spring/Summer 2007 (Only Prado de San Sebastián–San Fernando–Archivo de Indias–Plaza Nueva stations)


See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Who we are". Metro Sevilla. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Sevilla metro inaugurated". Railway Gazette International. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  3. ^ Michael Taplin (March 2013). "Home - World Systems List index - World List P-T - Spain (ES)". Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA). Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Metro de Sevilla logra su récord histórico: más de 20 millones de pasajeros transportados en 2023". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  5. ^ "La Junta de Andalucía, dispuesta a paralizar definitivamente las obras del 'metro' de Sevilla". El País. 14 March 1983. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  6. ^ Reyes, Alberto García (24 January 2018). "Gobierno, Junta de Andalucía y Ayuntamiento acuerdan hacer la línea 3 del metro de Sevilla". ABCdesevilla. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Arrancan hoy las obras de la línea 3 del Metro de Sevilla, catorce años después de la apertura de la línea 1". Cadena SER. 20 February 2023.
  8. ^ "El Metro de Sevilla estrena logo sin anuncio oficial mientras se esperan más trenes". El Correo de Andalucía. 8 November 2024.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference diariodesevilla was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Robert Schwandl. "Sevilla". UrbanRail.net. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  11. ^ "Tickets & Fares". Metro Sevilla. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  12. ^ a b "Construction starts on Sevilla metro Line 3". Metro Report International. Railway Gazette. 30 April 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  13. ^ a b "¿Por dónde pasa la línea 3 del Metro de Sevilla?". ABCdesevilla. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
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