Overview
- Service is halted March 6–8 across six stations—Sol, Callao, Plaza de España, Ventura Rodríguez, Argüelles and Moncloa—on one of the network’s busiest corridors.
- A free replacement bus runs Moncloa–Callao on the metro timetable, with EMT route 133 and the Circular offering surface options and all affected stations except Ventura Rodríguez providing interchanges.
- Metro says the works focus on renewing the track superstructure at Plaza de España and in the tunnel toward Ventura Rodríguez to extend asset life and ensure safety.
- Railway-sector sources report the core issue at Plaza de España involves a risk of deformation and possible rupture of the track slab, a detail Metro has not specified publicly.
- Renfe president Álvaro Fernández Heredia criticized the short-notice closure and communication on X, as the network enters a broader renewal phase that also includes a Line 10 shutdown between Nuevos Ministerios and Cuzco from March 28 to year-end for the Bernabéu station rebuild.