Sopela is a station on line 1 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in the municipality of Sopela. The station opened as part of the metro on 11 November 1995. The station was originally named Sopelana after the municipality, which changed its name to Sopela in 2014,[3] the station's name also being changed shortly thereafter.[citation needed]
Sopela | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 3 Zubigane St. 48600 Sopela[1] Spain | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°22′49″N 2°58′44″W / 43.38028°N 2.97889°W | ||||||||||
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| Line(s) |  Line 1 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | Zone 3 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 15 September 1893 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 11 November 1995 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 445,114[2] | ||||||||||
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History edit
The station first opened to the public in 1893 as part of the Las Arenas-Plentzia railway, operated by the Las Arenas-Plencia Railway Company. At Las Arenas, in the municipality of Getxo, the line connected with the Bilbao-Las Arenas railway. Direct services between Bilbao and Sopela started in 1901.[4]
Starting in 1947, the narrow-gauge railway companies that operated within the Bilbao metropolitan area were merged to become Ferrocarriles y Transportes Suburbanos, shortened FTS and the first precedent of today's Bilbao metro. In 1977, the FTS network was transferred to the public company FEVE and in 1982 to the recently created Basque Railways.[5] In the 1980s it was decided the station, just like most of the former railway line, would be integrated into line 1 of the metro, with the new station opening now as part of the metro network on 11 November 1995.[6]
Station layout edit
It is an overground station with two side platforms, an underground tunnel joins both.
Access edit
3 Zubigane St.- 15 Lizarre St.
Station's interior
Services edit
References edit
- ^ "Estaciones - Sopela". Metro Bilbao (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ "Metro en cifras". Metro Bilbao (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ "Sopelana cambia oficialmente su nombre por Sopela". El Correo (in Spanish). Gernika. Europa Press. 29 January 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ Peris Torner, Juan (21 March 2012). "Ferrocarril de Bilbao a Las Arenas y Plencia (Suburbanos de Bilbao)". Spanish Railway (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ Peris Torner, Juan (9 May 2012). "Ferrocarriles y Transportes Suburbanos de Bilbao S.A. (FTSB)". Spanish Railway (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2022.
- ^ Guerrero, Belén (December 2011). "Metro Bilbao, una red en expansión" (PDF). Vía Libre (in Spanish). pp. 4–15. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
External links edit
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