El Pozo railway station
El Pozo Station is a Cercanías station in Vallecas neighborhood (Madrid). It was opened on July 15, 1992, and it is located in El Pozo area. It belongs to lines C-2 and C-7 of Cercanías Madrid.
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Location | Centro, Madrid Spain | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°26′48″N 3°41′32″W | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At Grade | |||||||||||||||
Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | A | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | July 15, 1992 | |||||||||||||||
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On the morning of March 11, 2004, a double-decker commuter train exploded with two bombs at this station, thus killing 67 people. It was later discovered that the Islamic terrorist cell Al-Qaeda was behind the attack.
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