Marseille Metro

The Marseille subway opened in 1977. The second subway line was added in 1984.

History

1977 the first 6.3 km long section of Line 1 between La Rose was - Technopole de Chateau- Gombert and Saint -Charles completed. The line was extended in 1978 through the 3 km long section between Saint- Charles and Castellane. 1984, the line was opened 2. They went first to a length of 3.3 km between Castellane and Joliette. At both ends of this line was extended to the distances between Castellane and Sainte -Marguerite and Dromel Joliette and Bougainville. These extensions together measure 5.6 km. In 1992, the piece between Castellane and La Timone line 1 was added to the south, which was extended in 2010 to La Fourragère.

The line network

Marseille has two subway lines:

• Line 1 La Rose - Technopole de Chateau- Gombert ↔ La Fourragère
• Line 2 Sainte- Marguerite Dromel ↔ Bougainville

The Marseille Metro system has a length of 19.3 km and 30 stations. The trains are 5 bis 21 clock clock in the 3 - to 5 -minute intervals in use. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, a metro train to 0:30 clock. A ride on Line 1 takes approximately 19 minutes on the line 2 around 16 minutes.

Stations

There are 30 stations, two of which act as interchange stations: St- Charles and Castellane.

Line 1

La Rose - Frais Vallon - Malpassé - Saint -Just - Chartreux - Cinq Avenues - Réformés - St- Charles - Colbert - Vieux Port - Estrangin - Castellane - Baille - La Timone - La Blancarde - Louis Armand - Saint- Barnabé - La Fourragère

Line 2

Bougainville - National - Désirée Clary - Joliette - Jules Guesge - St- Charles - Noailles - Notre Dame du Mont / Cours Julien - Castellane - Périer - Rond- Point du Prado - Ste- Maguerite Dromel

New track projects

Provided, but not yet decided is a further extension of line 2 on the current southern terminus of Ste -Marguerite addition to Saint- Loup Pagnol.