Plaza Egaña is a
transfer station between the Line 3 and Line 4 of the
Santiago Metro
The Santiago Metro ( es, Metro de Santiago) 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), 136 stations, and of revenue route. The system is managed by th ...
. 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. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...
in the surrounding soil.
Support columns of in diameter separate the tracks from each other.
The platforms have long.
References
Santiago Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 2005
Santiago Metro Line 3
Santiago Metro Line 4
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