Seville Metro

Metro de Sevilla

Overview
Native name	Metro de Sevilla
Locale	Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Transit type	Rapid transit/Light metro
Number of lines	1 (+ 3 in planning phase)
Number of stations	22
Annual ridership	14.45 million (2014)[1][2]
Website	Metro Sevilla (English)
Operation
Began operation	2 April 2009
Operator(s)	Metro de Sevilla Sociedad Concesionaria de la Junta de Andalucía S.A.[3]
Number of vehicles	17 CAF Urbos 2
Technical
System length	18 km (11 mi)[4]
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	750 V overhead power supply
Top speed	70 km/h (43 mph)
Route map in 2017

The Seville Metro (Spanish: Metro de Sevilla) is a 18-kilometre (11 mi) light metro^[5] network serving the city of Seville, Spain and its metropolitan area. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All 22 stations were built with platform screen doors.

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 14.45 million passengers in 2014.^[1][2]

History

Original project

First metro project

Construction of a metro in Seville began in 1974 with three proposed lines, covering only the city of Seville:

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

This project was cancelled in 1983 for political reasons with the budget from the central government reassigned to other infrastructure in Andalusia by the newly created Junta de Andalucía^[6] and also to the Bilbao Metro project instead, after 5 Billion Pesetas had already been spent. The official reasons given were fear that historic buildings might be damaged and economic viability.

Revised metro project

Seville Metro map

Nervión station

San Bernardo station

Plaza de Cuba station

In 1999 a new metro project was started by the Seville Metro Corporation (Spanish: Sociedad del Metro de Sevilla), founded by a former mayor of Seville. It was scheduled to be completed in 2006, but only began operation on 2 April 2009.^[4]

The new project plans a network covering Seville and its metropolitan area (1,500,000 inhabitants) formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.

System

Metro de Sevilla
Line	Terminals	Length	Stations	In service	Opened
	Ciudad Expo Olivar Quintos	18 km	22	21	2 April 2009

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
  • License holder: Grupo ACS, Grupo SyV, GEA 21, AOPJA, CAF.

Rolling stock

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-metre (102 ft) long, 2.65-metre (8.7 ft) wide, and 3.3-metre (11 ft) tall, with a total 6 doors on each side. Seating capacity per LRV vehicle is 192 passengers/vehicle (60 seated, 132 standing). The Urbos 2 LRVs have air conditioning. LRVs are powered by an overhead power supply at 750 Volts.^[7]

Future service

Metro de Sevilla
Line	Terminals	Length	Stations	In service	Opened
	Torreblanca Puerta Triana	13.4 km	18	0	2017 (partial)
	Pino Montano Bermejales	11.5 km	17	0	2017 (partial)
	Circular line	17.7 km	24	0	2017 (partial)

Line 2 (in planning phase)

• Line 2, West-East
  • Tipology: Underground
  • Stops: 18
  • Length: 13.4 km.
  • Number of trains:
  • Start of the works: Late 2011 (expected)
  • End of the works: Late 2017 (expected)
  • License holder:

Line 3 (in planning phase)

• Line 2, North-South
  • Tipology: Underground
  • Stops: 17
  • Length: 11.5 km.
  • Number of trains:
  • Start of the works: Late 2011 (expected)
  • End of the works: Late 2017 (expected)
  • License holder:

Line 4 (in planning phase)

• Line 4, circular
  • Tipology: Underground
  • Stops: 24
  • Length: 17.7 km.
  • Number of trains:
  • Start of the works: Late 2011 (expected)
  • End of the works: Late 2017 (expected)
  • License holder:

Tram lines

• 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)

Future tramlines

• Aljarafe tram. Street level.
  • Start of the works: 2005.
• Dos Hermanas tram. Street level.
  • Start of the works: 2008.
• Alcalá de Guadaira tram. Street level.
  • Start of the works: 2008.

See also

• MetroCentro Seville (i.e. Seville tramway)
• RENFE, operator of the commuter train system of Seville.
• Medium-capacity rail transport system

References

1. "Estadística de Transporte de Viajeros" [Passenger Transport Statistics]. Ine.es (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadística [National Statistics Institute]. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
2. "Balance Anual 2012" [Annual Results 2012] (pdf) (in Spanish). Metro Sevilla. 28 January 2013. p. 5. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
3. "Who we are". Metro Sevilla. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
4. "Sevilla metro inaugurated". Railway Gazette International. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
5. Michael Taplin (March 2013). "Home - World Systems List index - World List P-T - Spain (ES)". Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA). Retrieved 2014-05-18.
6. "La Junta de Andalucía, dispuesta a paralizar definitivamente las obras del 'metro' de Sevilla". El País. 14 March 1983. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
7. Robert Schwandl. "Sevilla". UrbanRail.net. Retrieved 2014-09-26.

External links

• Metro Sevilla – official website (English)
• Seville Metro at UrbanRail.net