Sestao | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | Kasko Plaza 48910 Sestao[1] Spain | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 43°18′34″N 3°00′26″W / 43.30944°N 3.00722°W | ||||||||||
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Line(s) | Line 2 | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
Parking | No | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Fare zone | Zone 2 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 8 January 2005 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2021 | 1,799,857[2] | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Sestao is a station on line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in central Sestao, in close proximity to the city hall and the Santa María church. It opened on 8 January 2005 and it acted as northern terminus for line 2 until the opening of the Portugalete extension in 2007.[3][4]
There is a station on the Cercanías Bilbao commuter railway network with the same name, but the two stations are not connected.
Station layout
Sestao station follows the typical cavern-shaped layout of most underground Metro Bilbao stations designed by Norman Foster, with the main hall located directly above the rail tracks.
Access
- Kasko Plaza, city hall (Kasko exit)
- 14, Gran Vía de José Antonio Agirre y Lekube (La Salle exit, closed during night time services)
- Camino Txikito Rd. / Doctor Fleming St. (Camino Txikito Bidea exit, closed during night time services)
- 2, Gran Vía de José Antonio Agirre y Lekube (Kasko exit)
Services
The station is served by line 2 from Basauri to Kabiezes. The station is also served by Bizkaibus regional bus services.
Future
In 2022, it was announced that a tunnel will connect both banks of the Ibaizabal-Nervión estuary in 2028, incorporating a shuttle train that will connect the Sestao and Areeta (Line 1) stations in four minutes.[5] Work on the tunnel is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2024, with a planned investment of 450 million euros.[6]
References
- ↑ "Estaciones - Sestao". Metro Bilbao (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ↑ "Metro en cifras". Metro Bilbao (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ↑ Guerrero, Belén (December 2011). "Metro Bilbao, una red en expansión" (PDF). Vía Libre (in Spanish). pp. 4–15. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ "Metro Bilbao inaugura dos nuevas estaciones, Sestao y Etxebarri". Vía Libre (in Spanish). 27 February 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ↑ "La lanzadera de metro que unirá Getxo y Sestao funcionará cada 4 minutos y no tendrá maquinista". El Correo (in Spanish). 29 September 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ↑ "Europa prestará hasta 200 millones de euros para construir el gran túnel bajo la Ría". Naiz (in Spanish). 16 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
External links
- Media related to Sestao (Bilbao metro) at Wikimedia Commons