Plaza Egaña is a
transfer station between the Line 3 and Line 4 of the
Santiago Metro
The Santiago Metro () is a rapid transit system serving the city of Santiago, the capital of Chile. It currently consists of seven lines (numbered 1-6 and 4A), 143 stations, and of revenue route. The system is managed by the state-owned Metro S. ...
. It is
located under
Egaña Square. The Line 4 station was opened on 30 November 2005 as part of the inaugural section of the line between
Tobalaba and
Grecia. The Line 3 station was opened on 22 January 2019 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from
Los Libertadores to
Fernando Castillo Velasco.
The cross-section of the platform-level tunnel has the shape of two partially intersecting circles, which was so designed due to the predominant presence of
clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...
in the surrounding soil.
Support columns of in diameter separate the tracks from each other.
The platforms have long.
References
Santiago Metro stations
Santiago Metro Line 3
Santiago Metro Line 4
Railway stations in Chile opened in 2005
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