FILE 07
METRO.MAD
- ▸ ARCHIVE 1917 → 2025
- ▸ 13 LINES · 276 STATIONS
- ▸ A SHORT FILM
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23 Apr 1917
Madrid starts digging under Puerta del Sol
Unknown photographer · Public domain
Chapter
01Eight stations
17 Oct 1919
King Alfonso XIII opens Line 1
Unknown photographer · Public domain
31 Oct 1919
Fifteen céntimos a ride
La Esfera, 8 Nov 1919 · Public domain
1937
The stations become shelters
Alfonso Sánchez Portela · Public domain
1962
The city keeps digging
Manuel Urech · Public domain
Chapter
02A century, replayed
Every opening, year by year
14 →
14million trips a year
1920 → 2025, an all-time record
Every milestone, with its photo and its source
The city rises around the lines
Chapter
03Ride it
History you can ride
Madrid, from below
Built by Blacknosaur
metromadrid.bnsr.dev
Sponsored by WITAM · Archive photos: Wikimedia Commons, public domain
The plan came from three engineers: Otamendi, Mendoza and González Echarte.
Sol to Cuatro Caminos: 3.48 km and eight stations.
On the first day of public service, more than 56,000 people rode it.
Through the siege of Madrid, from 1936 to 1939, the Metro kept running.
Tunnel works between Ventas and Ciudad Lineal.
We rebuilt the network from the archive, one opening at a time.
14.6 million trips in 1920. 736.9 million in 2025.
Story mode walks through each milestone, dated and sourced.
Thirteen lines and 276 stations, on a 3D Madrid.
Live positions are estimated from platform arrival times.