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World's Most Stunning Metro Stations
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 05 November 2011, 01:34 IST |
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8. Bilbao Metro, Spain:
In total, the Metro has 40.61 km (as of 2009) of rail tracks, with 38 stations (22 of them underground and 16 outside) and 74 accesses (not counting elevators) and 9 substations. Bilbao is famous for its grand stations designed by Sir Norman Foster. Another interesting aspect is the use of energy from renewable sources. Metro de Bilbao has installed brake energy recovery systems that stop the trains more effectively and get energy savings of 33 percent. It was the fourth Metro line to be built in Spain, after those in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. Currently, it is the third largest Metro company in Spain by number of passengers carried (87,000,000 in 2009) behind the Madrid Metro and the one in Barcelona.
