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Metro de Valles from the ERS

Barcelona

Type	Full Metro
Stations	118
Lines	5
Length In Subway
Length Topside
Total Length	111.5 km
Year Built	1924
Address	Ferrocarril Metropolitano de Barcelona, S.A.  Ronda de San Pablo, 41  Barcelona 15, Spain
Links	TMB: Transportes Metropolitanos de BarcelonaMETRO de BARCELONA Robert Schwandl's Barcelona Metro page Barcelona Map Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya Images of the privately run subway, the Metro de Valles
Comments	Barcelona has 3 different types of subways operated by 3 different authorities: Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ferrocarril Metropolita de Barcelona and the 43 km Sarria line. What do the numbers on the Barcelona metro signs mean? According to one individual, there were many illiterates under the Franco regime. The numbers enabled them to identify the stations.

A page on Barcelona's Blue Tram

Bilbao

Type	Full Metro and LRT under construction
Stations	27
Lines	2 (with 2nd under construction as of 1997)
Length In Subway
Length Topside
Total Length	28.5 kilometers
Year Built	11/11/1995
Address
Links	City Hall Metro infoMetro InfoRenfe Cercanías (Suburban Rail)  Euskotren (Basque Railways)  Bilbao Metropolitarra Metro Bilbao Official Home Page Some most excellent photos of subway-like narrow gauge Euskotren and FEVE electrics from the ERS. Dude! Page by Foster & Partners, the station architects Renfe (Spanish National Railways) Bilbao page Light Rail project home page
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Although this is not a pure metro link, it is a very cool Bilbao page using VRML technology. Well worth the visit, there is also a section on the subway.

Bilbao is due to open it's first light rail line in December 2002. Trams disappeared for good from the city streets in 1967, and surviving cars were sent to Soller.

Canaries
light rail
 

article
 

The Meto Tenerife will eventually run 65.2km along the east coast of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria in the Canaries. El Tren de la Isla Gran Canaria (TGC) would run from Arucas in the north, via Las Palmas and the airport, to Maspalomas in the south.

Cercedilla
Regional tramway
Photos from BS
 
Coruna

Official Home Page

Gijón
metro under construction

"East-west metrotren project defined by the Ministry of Development will include two parallel tunnels, 3 km-long, 6-7 m-wide, 20 m-deep, from Barrio de Moreda to La Guía. Geological studies by Geocontrol. Cost is US$132.3 million"

Gratallops
heritage tramway

home page

Inca
Interurban
A 20.3km narrow gauge tramway will be reopening in 2003, linking to the city of Manacor.

Madrid

Malaga-Velez
LRT subway under construction
 
In early January 2003, construction began on a 22 km of light rail. About half of the four line system will be underground, with the first section expected to open in 2007. Euskotren has sent a tram to the city so that citizens will be able to see what their light rail will look like.

Official home page for Andalusia region transport

Official home page

Montserrat
LRT subway

Unofficial home page

Palma
Planned light rail
2 lines are planned in this Mallorcan city

San Sebastian
Planned Light Rail

Brief mention of the plan

 

Seville
LRT subway

According to the 9/28/81 issue of Railway Age, Seville was supposed to have a metro, 6.5 miles under construction as of 1983, with 10.3 miles in the planning/design stages. David Navarro tells me:

"it is true that a project was considered in the eighties, and works even began in 1982. However, floods during the excavation under Guadalquivir River, delays due to the discovery of archaeological remains and mismanagement problems caused the abandoning of the project. For the moment, neither local nor regional authorities seem to have any intention of  resuming the works."

On the other hand, this link tells it differently.

And now we know: the 18.9 km, 23 station Seville metro is under construction and includes 11 underground stops in the city center using in prt the 3 km tunnel that was built in the 1970's.

Seville metro home page

Soller Railway - a real interurban

Ferrocarril de Majorca (Majorca Railway)
Soller tramway
Images thanks to Barry Emmott

Soller
LRT, tramway, pre-metro(?)

El Tren de Soller - a 27 km traction line between Palma and Soller in Majorca
There is also an interurban style line on Majorca. For information on the Soller railway and tramway, a great site to visit is this one from Barry Emmott. There are also DMU's on the Ferrocarril de Majorca. As of September 2001, there are definite plans to put part of the railway underground, perhaps making it a full-fledged metro!

At the beginning of the last century Jeroní Estades i Llabrés recognized the importance of a railway connection from the capital Palma to Sóller. In 1907 he realized his dream and built a 914mm steam-railway. It opened in on April 16, 1912. The train was called "Ferrocarril de Sóller“

In 1913 the electric tram from Sóller to Port Sóller was established. 1929 the steam-traktion was closed. Since that time electric cars (from Siemens Schuckert) are still running between Palma and Sóller.