Madrid Public Transport

Metro and mainline station, Madrid

Madrid; Rio Manzanares, Teleférico and cathedral.

I hadn't thought I was in danger because I never see cyclists here but as I was lining up this shot, this chap whizzed past me using some choice Madrileño invective - and justfiably so! I should have known it was a cycle route. Served me right! This pedestrian and cycle pathway lies above the M40 motorway ring road.

Principe Pio metro and mainline station, Madrid. 2 metro trains are below. I waited for as long as I could but I couldn't get main line and metro trains to co-incide! Sight and Sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoESxVt81h0 Love in Vain lyrics (Robert Johnson, as re-arranged by Jagger and Richards), Well I followed her to the station With a suitcase in my hand Yeah, I followed her to the station With a suitcase in my hand Whoa, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell When all your love's in vain When the train come in the station I looked her in the eye Well the train come in the station And I looked her in the eye Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome That I could not help but cry When the train left the station It had two lights on behind Yeah, when the train left the station It had two lights on behind Whoa, the blue light was my baby And the red light was my mind All my love was in vain All my love's in vain

'Open-plan'. Metro and mainline, trains, tracks and passengers (not to mention shopping mall, food hall, cinema complex - the usual suspects) all sharing the same 90s designed space. It actually works very well imho. All built within the old mainline terminus of the Estaciòn del Norte (you can see the impressive ironmongery of the old terminus at the top). Sight and sound. Just like it and always have ever since I first heard it every morning stuck in a traffic jam on the M40 into London. Silly video but great pop song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ

metro and mainline station. The mainline trains run horizontally along the raised track (across the centre of the pic, I couldn't wait any longer for a train as I would have been late for a class!) and the metro trains are below (which kind of makes sense!). Madrid public transport.

One of the main transport hubs in Madrid

Mar de Cristal metro station

Metro Station, Madrid. Station recently renamed. Was called Campo de Las Naciones, now called Ifema (the name of the nearby National Exhibition Centre).

I used to give classes twice a week for a few years in this southern Madrid district so became familiar with this station, as well as the 15 minute walk through a less than salubrious area of Madrid. But I'm a big lad and wot with the skull 'n' crossbones tattoo on my forehead, I had very little trouble here!

I used to come here fairly regularly to take a company class and later a private class nearby. Occasionally I felt the urge to take a shot or two.

Principe Pio mainline and metro station, Madrid Sight and sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1zFnyEe3nE For no other reason than I love Janis Joplin, just as I love the voices of Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Bessie smith, Joni Mitchell, Maggie Bell, Billie Holliday and Patti Smith, among many others. And maybe because these wonderful heartfelt and expressive voices need to be sung out in railway stations, shopping malls and government institutions (shades of Cuckoos Nest perhaps). On second thoughts I'm rambling on and it's long past my bed time!

Metro station and local train services hub with cinema complex and shopping centre. A complete re-design in the late 80s and early 90s of a dilapidated old station. You can see the original wrought-iron superstructure of the old station reflected in the modern glass.

Chamartin mainline and metro station, Car park, authorised graffiti. The Four Towers, Madrid

Mar de Cristal metro station, Lines 4 and 8, Madrid

Príncipe Pío metro and mainline station, Madrid. Modern escalator handrail and much older ironmongery. One for Project 21 from the archives on the theme of transport just before entries close ('in the nick of time!')

Madrid metro. This won't be everyone's cup of tea. I posted it on Pano and it got more or less zero response. Already an improvement here!

Passing over the Casa de Campo. An empty cabin passing the other way. I teach, or have taught, Business English at the top of all the tall buildings on the skyline.