Line 6 (Metro Madrid)

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6th
Cuatro Caminos 1 
2
Nuevos Ministerios 8th 
10
Cercanías
República Argentina
Avenida de America 4th 
7
9
Diego de León 4th 
5
Manuel Becerra 2
O'Donnell
Sainz de Baranda 9
Conde de Casal
Pacífico 1
Méndez Álvaro Cercanías
Arganzuela Planetario
Legazpi 3
Usera
Plaza Elíptica 11
Opañel
Oporto 5
Carpetana
Laguna Cercanías
Lucero
Alto de Extremadura
Puerta del Ángel
Príncipe Pío 10 
R
Cercanías
Argüelles 3 
4
Moncloa 3
Ciudad Universitaria
Vicente Aleixandre
Guzman el Bueno 7th
Cuatro Caminos 1 
2

The line 6 (span. Linea 6 or Circular , short L-6) is a subway -line of Metro Madrid . This is a ring line that runs around the city center and provides connections to all other lines except the L-12 . The route runs from Cuatro Caminos via Avenida de América , Pacífico and Príncipe Pío back to Cuatro Caminos . The line runs in both directions.

The L-6 is 23.5 kilometers long and has 28 stations. The completely underground line is part of the large-profile network , the length of the stations is 115 meters. With a depth of 49 meters, Cuatro Caminos is the deepest underground of the entire Madrid metro. You can change to other metro lines at 14 points, and at four stations to the Cercanías suburban railway .

history

The route of the future ring line was determined in the revised expansion plan from 1974. The Cuatro Caminos - Pacífico line , the first section (7.2 km long), the L-6, opened on October 11, 1979. A little more than half a year later, the section between Pacífico and Oporto followed on May 7, 1980 , with which the line was just over halfway completed.

In 1982 there was a review of the expansion plan. As a result of this reassessment, the construction work on the Laguna - Puerta del Ángel section was temporarily halted; the existing funds should first be used primarily to improve the station infrastructure . The section between Oporto and Laguna could still be completed as planned and was opened on June 1, 1983.

On January 13, 1987, the L-6 from Cuatro Caminos reached the Ciudad Universitaria station . The Complutense University of Madrid had demanded since the 1940s repeatedly unsuccessful one connection of the sprawling university campus to the metro network. In 1963 the L-3 had been extended to Moncloa , but this station was on the southern edge of the site and did not provide sufficient access to it. With the extension of the L-6, the requirement that had been raised for decades could finally be met.

On May 10, 1995, the Laguna - Ciudad Universitaria section closed the last gap in the L-6. At the Príncipe Pío train station, the subway station, which until then had only been served by the R shuttle line , was expanded into a traffic junction at which three metro lines and two Cercanías lines have since crossed. The L-6 subsequently developed into the most popular line in the entire network, with over 500,000 passengers daily. On January 26, 2007, the Arganzuela-Planetario station between Legazpi and Méndez Álvaro was opened .

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