Vall d'Hebron , Sant Genis is a
Barcelona Metro
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station, in the
Horta-Guinardó
Horta-Guinardó () is the name of one of the districts of Barcelona, located in its North-Eastern corner. It is named after two very heterogeneous areas of the city, Horta and el Guinardó, which together cover a large area of 11.92 km², ...
district of
Barcelona
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, and named after the nearby
Vall d'Hebron
Vall d'Hebron is a neighborhood in the ''Horta-Guinardó'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Four venues in the area hosted competitions for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
The Barcelona Metro line L3 stations of Vall d'Hebron, Montbau and ...
neighbourhood. The station is served by line
L3 and is the northern terminus of line
L5.
The line L3 section of the station is situated under the ''
Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron'' and the ''
Ronda de Dalt
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'' expressway, between ''
Avinguda del Jordà '' and ''
Camà de la Granja''. It has two tracks and two
side platform
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s that are long. The line L5 section of the station is situated at a depth of below the ''Avinguda del Jordà '' and the ''
Carrer de Coll i Alentorn''. It has a single central
island platform
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served by two tracks.
Diagonal
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metro stations. Like both these two stations, the platforms of the two lines at Vall d'Hebron are connected by an underground passageway. However, there is no track connection between the two lines at Vall d'Hebron. There are depots for both lines adjacent to the station.[
The station was opened in 1985, when the section of line L3 between Lesseps and ]Montbau
Montbau is a neighborhood in the Horta-Guinardó district of the city of Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the ...
stations was inaugurated. The line L5 section of the station was opened on 30 July 2010, when the extension from Horta station opened.[
]
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Barcelona Metro line 3 stations
Barcelona Metro line 5 stations
Railway stations opened in 2010
Transport in Horta-Guinardó
1985 establishments in Spain
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1985
Barcelona Metro stations located underground
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