A connection to Line 11 will be constructed in the first half of the 2020s, with work scheduled to begin in November 2022 for completion by the end of 2026. The latter was added when the new terminal building was constructed and is directly linked to the railway station, providing access to Line 1. The station is served by two Madrid Metro stations, Estación del Arte (located near the Museo Reina Sofía) and the Atocha Renfe metro station. The main lines end in the new terminal regional and commuter train platforms are located underground, at the ingress to a rail tunnel extending northward under the Paseo de la Castellana. Ī modern terminal was also designed by Moneo, and built in adjacent land to serve both the new High Speed trains, regional and local commuter lines. Like the Orsay Museum in Paris, the concourse has been given a new function, that being in the case of Atocha a stunning 4,000 m 2 (43,056 sq ft) covered tropical garden. In 1992, the original building was taken out of service as a terminal, and converted into a concourse with shops, cafés, and a nightclub. In 1985, a project of complete remodeling began, based on designs by Rafael Moneo. This complex of railway tracks expanded through the years. The steel and glass roof spreads between two brick flanking buildings. The train platforms were partly covered by a roof in the form of inverted hull with a height of approximately 27 meters and length of 157 meters. The name Atocha has become attached to the station because of the nearby basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Atocha. Engineer Henry Saint James also took part in the project. The architect for the replacement, in a wrought iron renewal style was Alberto de Palacio Elissagne, who collaborated with Gustave Eiffel. History Exterior of old Atocha station Interior plaza in old Atocha station High-speed train departure concourse at the new Atocha Station.Īt this site, Madrid's first railway station was inaugurated on 9 February 1851 under the name Estación de Mediodía (Atocha-Mediodía is now the name of an area of the Arganzuela district, and means south in old Spanish).Īfter the building was largely destroyed by fire, it was rebuilt by the MZA railway company and reopened in 1892. Renfe is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains since 1941.
The original façade faces Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, a site at which a variety of streets converge, including the Calle de Atocha, Paseo del Prado, Paseo de la Infanta Isabel, Avenida de la Ciudad de Barcelona, Calle de Méndez Álvaro, Paseo de las Delicias, Paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza, and Ronda de Atocha.Ītocha 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. The station is in the Atocha neighborhood of the district of Arganzuela. As of 2019, this station has daily services to Marseille, France. These train services are run by Spain's national rail company, Renfe. It is the largest station serving commuter trains ( Cercanías), 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). Madrid Atocha ( Spanish: Estación de Madrid Atocha), also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, is the first major railway station in Madrid.
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