{"id":57292,"date":"2024-10-02T23:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57292"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:49:10","slug":"the-history-and-current-state-of-the-five-ghost-stations-of-the-barcelona-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/02\/the-history-and-current-state-of-the-five-ghost-stations-of-the-barcelona-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"The history and current state of the five ghost stations of the Barcelona Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain and the second to have its own metro network, which was inaugurated in 1924.<\/p>\n

The beautiful ghost station of the New York Subway that was designed by a Spaniard<\/a><\/rel>
\nA tour of the Cincinnati Subway: an entire subway network abandoned since 1928<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

The Barcelona Metro began its history with the burying of the railway line between Barcelona and Sarri\u00e0, built in 1863. The first line of the current Barcelona Metro (the current Line 3) was inaugurated almost 100 years ago<\/strong>, on December 30, 1924, five years after the inauguration of the Madrid Metro. That first line was built by the Gran Metropolitano de Barcelona company, created in 1921 and which in 1957 passed into the hands of the City Council.<\/p>\n

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The inauguration of the first line of the Barcelona Metro, the current Line 3, on December 30, 1924 (Photo: Fundaci\u00f3 TMB<\/a>).<\/div>\n

As is often the case with all suburban railway networks of a certain age, the Barcelona Metro has several ghost stations<\/strong>, that is, stations that have been abandoned due to lack of use or that, in some cases, were not even used due to poor planning during construction. A few days ago, Digar Productions<\/a> published an interesting video reviewing the history and current situation of these ghost stations<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n