Madrid Atocha railway station

Madrid Atocha
Madrid Atocha
General information
Location	Arganzuela, Madrid; Spain
Coordinates	40°24′24″N 3°41′22″W / 40.406528°N 3.689373°W
Owned by	Adif
Operated by	Renfe
Line(s)	From Puerta de Atocha: Madrid–Seville (high-speed) (PK 0.0); Madrid–Levante (high-speed) (PK 0.0); Madrid–Barcelona–Figueres (high-speed) (PK 0.0); Madrid–Málaga (high-speed) (PK 0.0); Madrid–Granada (high-speed) (PK 0.0); From Atocha–Cercanias: Madrid–Almería; Madrid–Badajoz; Madrid–Barcelona; Madrid–Jaén; Madrid–Móstoles-El Soto; Madrid–Valencia; Madrid–Valencia de Alcántara (Portuguese border);
Tracks	24
Other information
Fare zone	A
History
Opened	9 February 1851; 173 years ago
Passengers
Passengers (2017)	110 million
Rank	1
Location
	Madrid Atocha Location within Madrid

Madrid Atocha , also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, was the first major railway station in Madrid. It is the largest station in the city. serving commuter trains, regional trains from the south and southeast, intercity trains from Navarre, Cádiz and Huelva (Andalusia) and La Rioja, and the AVE high speed trains from Girona, Tarragona and Barcelona (Catalonia), Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragon), Sevilla, Córdoba, Málaga and Granada (Andalusia), Valencia, Castellón and Alicante (Levante Region). As of 2019, this station has daily services to Marseille, France.

Overview[change | change source]

The station is in the Atocha neighborhood of the district of Arganzuela.

Atocha station is a railway complex, formed by the Madrid Atocha Cercanías and Madrid Puerta de Atocha stations of Spain's national railways and a station of the Madrid underground called Atocha-Renfe. Renfe is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains since 1941.

History[change | change source]

The old station opened in 1851. It was largely destroyed by fire and rebuilt by the MZA railway company. It reopened in 1892. A new four-track underground station with two through platforms for high-speed services is being built in 2024.^[2]