Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) will open this Tuesday, November 4, from 2 p.m. the inscriptions for the second edition of the open days on the occasion of the Centenary of the Metro.
After the success of the first edition, more than 2,000 new places will be drawn to visit three key facilities of the network: the Metro Control Center (CCM), the workshops of the automatic lines of ZAL and the ‘ghost’ station of Gaudí.
The visits will be distributed over six days, corresponding to three weekends: November 22 and 23, November 29 and 30, and December 13 and 14.
The allocation of places will be organized in three separate draws, one for each weekend of visits. Registration will be staggered, opening in three consecutive periods.
The first registration period, for the visits on November 22 and 23, will begin this Tuesday, November 4 at 2:00 p.m. and will close on Friday, November 7 at 12:00 noon. The corresponding draw will take place on Monday, November 10.
Immediately afterwards, on the same Monday, November 10, the second registration period will open for the visits on November 29 and 30. This period will last until Friday, November 14, and the draw will be held on Monday, November 17.
Finally, the third registration period will begin on Monday, November 17 and end on Friday, November 21. This last one will be for the visits on December 13 and 14, with the drawing to be held on Monday, November 24. The winners of each drawing will be notified by e-mail.
Three unknown spaces of the Barcelona subway
The open days, as part of the Centenary celebrations, will give the public access to areas usually restricted to professional use.
The Metro Control Center (CCM), located in the Sagrera district and considered the “brain” of the network, operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This facility manages the operation of 126 km of network, 9 lines, 165 stations and more than one and a half million passengers a day, supervising circulation, energy, security and information.
The ZAL workshops serve automatic lines L9 and L10, the most modern in the network. At these facilities, trains are overhauled and the systems that allow them to operate without drivers are supervised.
For its part, the Gaudí ghost station, built in 1968 between Sagrada Família and Sant Pau / Dos de Mai, never came into operation. During the guided tours, attendees can learn about the history of the One Hundred Years of the Barcelona Metro on the platform that has never received passengers.