Ola is a railway station in

Sondika Sondika (Spanish, ''Sondica'') is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Situated directly south of the runway of Bilbao Airport, it is the location of Bilbao Bri ...

, Basque Country,

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. It is owned by

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and operated by

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. 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 station opened on 31 October 1908, as part of the new alignment between

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and

Lezama Lezama is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. It is home to the training headquarters of the football team Athletic Bilbao, and is accessible by bus - Bizka ...

. During the construction of Bilbao metro line 3, the old tunnel through Artxanda was closed. As a result, the only service calling at the station from November 2015 to April 2017 was a shuttle to and from . Together with the metro line, a new double-track tunnel was built under Artxanda parallel the one inaugurated in 1908; which now serves as an evacuation gallery for the new one. After the opening of line 3 in April 2017, train service on the

was completely restored, with its trains running through the new tunnel and the metro line. If the long-planned railway line to the

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is built, the station will be rebuilt at a different location as part of a new alignment between Ola and that will remove the need to reverse at the latter station.

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

* {{Euskotren stations Euskotren Trena stations Railway stations in Biscay Railway stations opened in 1908 1908 establishments in Spain