Campo Grande Metro Station
Campo Grande is a metro station on the Linha Amarela (yellow line) and Linha Verde (green line) of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital . The train station is located directly at the intersection of the 2nd Lisbon ring road ( 2nd circular Avenida General Norto de Matos ) and Avenida Padre Cruz street in the municipality of Lumiar . Campo Grande is one of the most important transport hubs outside of Lisbon's city center ( Baixa Pombalina ), next to the train station is the Estádio José Alvalade of the Sporting Lisbon football club. The neighboring stations of the train station are Quinta das Conchas , Telheiras , Cidade Universitária and Alvalade . The station went into operation on April 1, 1993. The eponymous park Campo Grande is half a kilometer away to the south.
history
While in earlier centuries business life and thus also the center of Lisbon was always close to the Tagus at Praça do Comércio , this fell into disrepair, especially after the Second World War . In the fifties and sixties, the focus of trade therefore shifted more and more to the north. For this reason, the traffic flows changed so that the north-south connections were more and more in demand, but the tram could not meet the demand alone. The opening of the first Lisbon metro line (now part of the blue and yellow lines) between Sete Rios , Entre Campos and Restauradores provided a first remedy . Another line to Alvalade was added by 1972 .
After the city of Lisbon, together with the operating company Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP , decided on an expansion plan for the next decade in 1990, the two route branches, which ended in Alvalade (since 1972) and Cidade Universitária (since 1988), were to be connected at the Campo Grande traffic junction. The construction work for this began in 1990, in addition to the construction of the station, the construction of a second workshop ("Parque de Material e Oficinas de Calvanas") east of the future station was necessary. The construction work was finished by 1993. With the opening of the train station and the workshop on April 1, 1993, the above-ground underground station of the Lisbon Metro also went into operation.
The planning of the station with two side platforms and a central platform was done by Ezequiel Nicolau , Eduardo Nery was responsible for the design of the station . For the first above-ground underground station in Lisbon, Nery chose the azulejos , traditional in Portugal , which were traditionally often placed in the entrance area ( figuras de convite ) , especially in older, wealthy houses . Nery tried his hand at a balancing act between modernity and tradition and had the majority of the walls in the access area of the station tiled with azulejos from the 18th century. In addition to the azulejos, Nery also used various design details to reduce the massive impression of the station on the area.
A problem arose with the opening, as two of the three line branches of the entire metro network met, which previously had no line names. For this reason, the operating company prepared the basis for the later line designations according to colors and symbols. In 1995, the section between Campo Grande and Rotunda (today Marquês do Pombal) via Entre Campos was renamed Linha Amarela (yellow line), the remaining section was initially retained as Linha Azul (blue line). With the separation of the Linha Azul (blue line) in 1998 into a western section ( Pontinha - Restauradores , still Linha Azul ) and an eastern (Campo Grande - Martim Moniz , now Linha Verde ), only the green line stopped at the station Campo Grande. Since 1999, the blue and green lines have met at the newly built Baixa-Chiado subway station .
Since 2002, the station was no longer the terminus for the green line, as the trains have since gone one station to Telheiras station . The same happened in 2004 for the yellow line, since then it has been running across the municipality of Lumiar and beyond the Lisbon city limits to the suburb of Odivelas .
The train station is an important transport hub; A large number of bus companies stop here ( Barraqueiro Oeste, Boa Viagem , Barraqueiro, Isidoro Duarte , Mafrense , Ribatejana , Rodoviária de Lisboa , Rodoviária do Tejo , Transportes Sul do Tejo , Carris ), and the Sporting stadium has been located since 1956 Lisbon right next to it. However, the station has so far no elevators.
course
At the subway station you can change to the bus lines of the Carris and the bus companies Barraqueiro Oeste, Boa Viagem , Barraqueiro, Isidoro Duarte , Mafrense , Ribatejana , Rodoviária de Lisboa , Rodoviária do Tejo and Transportes Sul do Tejo .
| line | course |
|---|---|
| Odivelas - Senhor Roubado - Ameixoeira - Lumiar - Quinta das Conchas - Campo Grande - Cidade Universitária - Entre Campos - Campo Pequeno - Saldanha - Picoas - Marquês de Pombal - Rato | |
| Telheiras - Campo Grande - Alvalade - Roma - Areeiro - Alameda - Arroios - Anjos - Intendente - Martim Moniz - Rossio - Baixa-Chiado - Cais do Sodré |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information about the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architectural description of the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Area map of the train station (PDF file, 260 KiB)
Coordinates: 38 ° 45 ′ 35.5 " N , 9 ° 9 ′ 28.6" W.