Rocafort (Barcelona Metro)
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Rocafort is 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 s ...
station, named after the '' Carrer de Rocafort'', in the Eixample district of the
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. The station is served by line L1. The station is located under the ''
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'' between the ''Carrer de Rocafort'' and the ''
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''. The station can be accessed from entrances on the ''Gran Via'', the ''Carrer de Rocafort'' and the ''Carrer de Calàbria''. It has twin tracks, flanked by two long
side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platform ...
s. Rocafort is on the original section of line L1 (then the Ferrocarril Metropolitano Transversal de Barcelona) between
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and Bordeta stations, which was opened in 1926.


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Barcelona Metro line 1 stations Railway stations in Spain opened in 1926 {{Barcelona-metro-stub