Barcelona Metro line 3

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Barcelona Metro line 3
Overview
Service type	Conventional metro
Locale	Barcelona
Current operator(s)	TMB
Route
Start	Zona Universitària
Stops	26
End	Trinitat Nova
Distance travelled	18.4 km (11.4 mi)
Average journey time	30 minutes
Technical
Rolling stock	3000R, 2000R and 5000 series Vall d'Hebron depot
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	Rigid overhead wire
Track owner(s)	TMB
Route map Legend to Airport T1 Zona Universitària Palau Reial Maria Cristina to Francesc Macià Les Corts Plaça del Centre Sants-Estació ( to Cornellà Centre) Barcelona Sants (Madrid–Barcelona line) Tarragona Plaça d'Espanya Llobregat–Anoia line Poble Sec to Badalona Pompeu Fabra Paral·lel Drassanes Liceu Barcelona–Vallès line Plaça de Catalunya to La Pau Passeig de Gràcia to Trinitat Nova Provença–Diagonal Barcelona–Vallès line Fontana Lesseps Lesseps depot (former) Vallcarca Penitents to Sant Genís depot Vall d'Hebron Montbau Mundet Valldaura Canyelles Roquetes Trinitat Nova This diagram: view talk

Barcelona Gran Metro (1934)
Legend
Lesseps Fontana Diagonal-Passeig de Gràcia Aragó current service current service Catalunya | Urquinaona Liceu | Jaume I Correus (closed)
This diagram: view talk

Line 3, currently known as Zona Universitària – Trinitat Nova, coloured green and often simply referred to as Línia verda ("Green line"), is a metro line in Barcelona operated by TMB, and therefore part of the fare-integrated ATM transport network of the urban region. This V-shaped line is the result of the junction of two related lines: the original L3 and L3B, in 1982. The central section of L3 has the city's oldest metro stations, built in the mid-1920s, with additions almost every decade since then. All of L3 stations are underground.

Its termini as of 2021 are Zona Universitària, which serves the University of Barcelona campus located in the western end Avinguda Diagonal in the Les Corts district, and Trinitat Nova in Nou Barris. There are plans for it to be extended from Trinitat Nova to Trinitat Vella, for connection with Line 1, and also from Zona Universitària to nearby suburbs in the comarca of Baix Llobregat.^[1]

Overview[]

Line L3 is the oldest line in the metro network, having opened in 1924 under the name Gran Metro de Barcelona with the occasion of the 1927 World Fair, joining Plaça Lesseps with Plaça Catalunya, the latter becoming the central underground station in the city and a terminus of both metro lines. It was operated by now defunct (GMB). Nowadays it covers a V-shaped area between the west end of Avinguda Diagonal (Zona Universitària) and Canyelles as a result of the integration of the original L3 and a subsidiary line called L3B or L3bis which appeared in 1975 joining Drassanes with Zona Universitària, and which became part of a larger L3 in 1982 when the infrastructures of both joined and they became fare-integrated. A section of the original L3 disappeared as plans to extend it in that direction would have required too much effort and the construction of L4 provided coverage for the line. These former stations of L3 remain unused.

Chronology[]

Lesseps station

• 1924 – Catalunya-Lesseps section opened.
• 1925 – Fontana station opened. Catalunya-Liceu section opened.
• 1926 – Passeig de Gràcia-Jaume I section opened.
• 1934 – Jaume I-Correos section opened.
• 1946 – Liceu-Fernando section opened.
• 1968 – Fernando-Drassanes section opened.
• 1970 – Drassanes-Paral·lel section opened.
• 1972 – Passeig de Gràcia-Correos section closed.
• 1975 – Paral·lel-Zona Universitària section opened (as L3B).
• 1982 – L3B integrated into L3.
• 1985 – Lesseps-Montbau section opened.
• 2001 – Montbau-Canyelles section opened.
• 2008 – Canyelles-Trinitat Nova section opened.

Current stations[]

Espanya station.

District	Station	Opened	Connections
Les Corts	Zona Universitària	1975	Trambaix: T1, T2, T3
	Palau Reial	1975	Trambaix: T1, T2, T3
	Maria Cristina	1975	Trambaix: T1, T2, T3
	Les Corts	1975
	Plaça del Centre	1975
Sants-Montjuïc	Sants Estació	1975	Renfe Operadora: AVE, Alvia, Euromed, Alaris, , TGV, Trenhotel (at Barcelona Sants) Renfe Media Distancia: R11, , , , , R16, (at Barcelona Sants) Rodalies de Catalunya: R1, R2, R2 Nord, R2 Sud, R3, R4, RG1 (at Barcelona Sants) Barcelona Metro: L5
	Tarragona	1975
	Plaça d'Espanya	1975	Barcelona Metro: L1 FGC: L8, S3, S4, S8, S9, R5, R50, R6, R60
	Poble Sec	1975
	Paral·lel	1970	Barcelona Metro: L2, Funicular de Montjuïc
Ciutat Vella	Drassanes	1968
	Liceu	1925
Eixample	Plaça de Catalunya	1924	Renfe Media Distancia: Rodalies de Catalunya: R1, R3, R4, RG1 FGC: L6, L7, S1, S2, S5, S6, S7 Barcelona Metro: L1
	Passeig de Gràcia	1924	Renfe Media Distancia: R11, , , , R16 Rodalies de Catalunya: R2, R2 Nord, R2 Sud Barcelona Metro: L2, L4
	Diagonal	1924	Barcelona Metro: L5 FGC: L6, L7, S1, S2, S5, S6, S7 (at Provença)
Gràcia	Fontana	1924
	Lesseps	1924
	Vallcarca	1985
	Penitents	1985
Horta-Guinardó	Vall d'Hebron	1985	Barcelona Metro: L5
	Montbau	1985
	Mundet	2001
	Valldaura	2001
Nou Barris	Canyelles	2001
	Roquetes	2008
	Trinitat Nova	2008	Barcelona Metro: L4, L11

Former stations[]

Original stations, 1924–1934.

• Fernando
• Banco (nowadays would be on L4)
• Correos (nowadays would be on L4)

Coordinates: 41°23′04.00″N 2°6′43.20″E / 41.3844444°N 2.1120000°E / 41.3844444; 2.1120000

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Barcelona Metro line 3 at Wikimedia Commons