Elotxelerri is a railway station in

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Basque Country Basque Country may refer to: * Basque Country (autonomous community), as used in Spain ( es, País Vasco, link=no), also called , an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain (shown in pink on the map) * French Basque Country o ...

, Spain. It is owned by

Euskal Trenbide Sarea Euskal Trenbide Sarea (, es, Red Ferroviaria Vasca), commonly known by its acronym ETS, is a railway infrastructure manager operating in the Basque Country, Spain. The company was formed in 2004, but the railway infrastructure it operates was t ...

and operated by

Euskotren Euskotren, formally known as Basque Railways ( eu, Eusko Trenbideak, es, Ferrocarriles Vascos), is a public railway company controlled by the Basque Government and officially established in 1982 to operate several narrow gauge railways inside ...

. It lies on the

Txorierri line Txorierri is a valley of Biscay, Basque Country, separated from Bilbao by low mountains Monte Artxanda and Monte Abril. It includes the municipalities of Erandio, Loiu, Sondika, Derio, Zamudio, Lezama and Larrabetzu Larrabetzu is a town and mu ...

History

The station was not part of the

when it opened in 1894. Due to budget constraints, the original alignment through

Mount Artxanda Mount Artxanda ( eu, Artxanda mendia; es, Monte Archanda) is one of the two small mountain ranges that delimit the municipality of Bilbao, the other one being Pagasarri. Of the two, it is the lower one (at no more than 300 m.), the closer one to ...

included prolonged steep slopes. This caused a serious accident only two months after the opening, after which the decision was taken to build a tunnel directly under the mountain. The track in which the station is located opened on 31 October 1908, as part of the new alignment between Bilbao and Lezama. The station was built in the 1990s as part of the renovation of the line, which also included the construction of a new station in and the extension of the line to . The station was renovated in 2018 after trains on the Txorierri line started running through metro line 3.

Services

The station is served by

Euskotren Trena Euskotren Trena, formerly known just as ''Euskotren'' is a commuter, inter-city and urban transit train-operating company that operates local and inter-city passenger services in the provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country, S ...

line E3. It runs every 15 minutes (in each direction) during weekdays, and every 30 minutes during weekends.

References

External links

* Railway stations in Spain opened in the 1990s Euskotren Trena stations Railway stations in Biscay 1990s establishments in the Basque Country (autonomous community) {{Spain-rail-transport-stub