Malaga Metro

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Malaga Metro is a transport network for the City of Malaga This network joins the various points within the city and has connections to the other Malaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium transport networks.The contract consists of the project, construction, rolling stock supply and operation of Metro Lines 1 and 2 for a 35-year period.The lines start at the centre and are distributed through to the outlying areas. Both connect together high-density population centres and the city centre  and also facilitate access to essential services, such as hospitals, the university campus, the law courts, the sports complex and the port.Section 1 commences at La Malagueta Station and ends at Colegios Mayores Station. It has fourteen stations, four of which are common to Line 2, distributed along 9.8 kilometres of track, shared with Line 2. This surface section is 3.1 kilometres long.Section 2 commences at La Malagueta Station and ends at the Palacio de Deportes Martín Carpena. It has ten stations, four of which are common to Line 1 and distributed along 6.7 kilometres of track including the 2.9-kilometre common section. All this section is underground.The new light metro is electrified at 750 Vdc and the vehicles are fed by an overhead power line. A suspended rigid catenary is installed along underground sections, using clamps and insulators fixed to the upper slabs in the tunnel.

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