El Pozo railway station
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El Pozo | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | Centro, Madrid Spain | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°26′48″N 3°41′32″W / 40.44667°N 3.69222°W | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At Grade | |||||||||||||||
Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | A | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | July 15, 1992 | |||||||||||||||
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El Pozo Station is a Cercanías station in Vallecas neighborhood (Madrid). It was opened on July 15, 1992, and it is located in El Pozo area. It belongs to lines C-2 and C-7 of Cercanías Madrid.
On the morning of March 11, 2004, a double-decker commuter train exploded with two bombs at this station, thus killing 68 people. It was later discovered that the Islamic terrorist cell Al-Qaeda was behind the attack.[1] In 2011, a monument made by the architect José María Pérez González with the collaboration of several Spanish artists, including Juan Genovés, Forges, and Andrés Rábago García , was inaugurated near the station in memory of those who died in the attacks of March 2004.[2]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Madrid_-_Puente_de_Vallecas_-_Estaci%C3%B3n_de_El_Pozo%2C_Monumento_a_las_V%C3%ADctimas_del_11-M_%281%29.jpg/220px-Madrid_-_Puente_de_Vallecas_-_Estaci%C3%B3n_de_El_Pozo%2C_Monumento_a_las_V%C3%ADctimas_del_11-M_%281%29.jpg)
References
[edit]- ^ "Lunes, 11 de marzo de 2019". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). March 10, 2019. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
- ^ VA, Vallecas (March 11, 2011). "Gallardón inaugura el monumento de El Pozo junto a Rajoy". Vallecas VA (in Spanish). Retrieved December 19, 2023.