Line 2 (Metro Madrid)

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2
Cuatro Caminos 1 
6
Canal 7th
Quevedo
San Bernardo 4th
Noviciado
Santo Domingo
Ópera 5 
R
Sol 1 
3
Cercanías
Seville
Banco de España
Retiro
Principe de Vergara 9
Goya 4th
Manuel Becerra 6th
Ventas 5
La Elipa
La Almudena
Alsacia
Avenida de Guadalajara
Las Rosas

The Line 2 (span. Línea 2 , briefly L-2 since 2013 Línea 2 Vodafone) is a metro -line of the Metro Madrid . It leads from Cuatro Caminos to Las Rosas , is 14.0 kilometers long and has 20 stations. The route is completely underground. The L-2 belongs to the metro's small profile network and the length of the stations is 60 meters. You can change to other metro lines at nine stations.

history

The first section of the L-2 opened on June 14, 1924 and ran from Sol in the city center to Ventas . It should provide a quick connection to the Las Ventas bullring , which was then under construction. The Goya station was built in such a way that the L4 to be built later could be connected without much effort. At the Banco de España station , the city's first public pedestrian underpass was built under Calle de Alcalá .

If the line had previously had a clear west-east orientation, this changed on October 21, 1925 with the opening of the Sol - Quevedo section leading north . On September 10, 1929, the section between Quevedo and Cuatro Caminos followed and the L-2 almost reached its current level.

For some years the Goya - Diego de León section was also part of the L-2. This was opened on September 17, 1932 and operated as a branch line. Half of the trains now went either to Diego de León or, as before, to Ventas . The short branch line was closed during the Spanish Civil War and served as an arsenal . A violent explosion occurred there on January 10, 1938, claiming an unknown number of lives. On October 3, 1958, the branch line went over to the L-4, which had been built fourteen years earlier .

Another section that is no longer used by the L-2 is the one between Ventas and Ciudad Lineal . This line, opened on May 28, 1964, belonged to the L-2 for just under six years and has been used by the L-5 since March 2, 1970 . In order to create a transition to the extended L-7 , the Canal station was added, which opened on October 16, 1998. On February 16, 2007, the L-2 from Ventas was extended by a 1.6 km section to the new La Elipa terminus .

From 2013, the L-2 line, like the "Sol" station, was sponsored by the mobile communications company Vodafone. As a result, the Sol station and line number 2 received the Vodafone logo on all plans. The station announcements have also been changed.

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