Badalona Pompeu Fabra is the name of a

Barcelona Metro The Barcelona Metro (Catalan and Spanish: ) is an extensive network of rapid transit electrified railway lines that run mostly underground in central Barcelona and into the city's suburbs. It is part of the larger public transport sys ...

station in downtown

Badalona Badalona (, , , ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality to the immediate north east of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By popu ...

, a municipality in the

metropolitan area of Barcelona The Barcelona urban area is an urban area in Catalonia (Spain) centered on the city of Barcelona and located less than 100 km south of the border with France. With a population of over 5 million, it is the most populous urban area on the Med ...

, served by metro line L2, and its northern

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. Saveguarded plans for the extension of L1 also include this station. It's named after

Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra i Poch (; Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 – Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Spanish engineer and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. Life Pompeu Fabra w ...

, grammarian and political figure. If the project is finally approved, it will be part of L13 as well. Construction started in October 2005 and was initially expected to be opened in 2007 under the working name ''Badalona Centre''. However, the station wouldn't be inaugurated until 2010, due to controlled demolition problems and the discovery of

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ruins in the area. Its platforms are over 100 m long and 9 m wide.

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Trenscat.com
Barcelona Metro line 1 stations Barcelona Metro line 2 stations Barcelona Metro stations located underground Railway stations in Badalona Railway stations in Spain opened in 2010 {{Barcelona-metro-stub