El Pozo railway station

El Pozo
General information
Location	Centro, Madrid Spain
Coordinates	40°26′48″N 3°41′32″W
Platforms	2
Construction
Structure type	At Grade
Platform levels	2
Other information
Fare zone	A
History
Opened	July 15, 1992 (1992-07-15)
Services
Preceding station Cercanías Madrid Following station Asamblea de Madrid Entrevías towards Chamartín C-2 Vallecas towards Guadalajara Asamblea de Madrid Entrevías towards Príncipe Pío C-7 Vallecas towards Alcalá de Henares

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.

On the morning of March 11, 2004, a double-decker commuter train exploded with two bombs at this station, thus killing 68 people. It was later discovered that the Islamic terrorist cell Al-Qaeda was behind the attack.[1] In 2011, a monument made by the architect José María Pérez González [es] with the collaboration of several Spanish artists, including Juan Genovés, Forges, and Andrés Rábago García [es], was inaugurated near the station in memory of those who died in the attacks of March 2004.[2]

Monument to the victims of the 2004 terrorist attack

References

1. "Lunes, 11 de marzo de 2019". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). March 10, 2019. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
2. VA, Vallecas (March 11, 2011). "Gallardón inaugura el monumento de El Pozo junto a Rajoy". Vallecas VA (in Spanish). Retrieved December 19, 2023.