Lezama station

Railway station in Lezama, Basque Country, Spain

Preceding station	Euskotren Trena			Following station
Terminus		Line E3		Kurtzea towards Kukullaga

Lezama is a railway station in Lezama, Basque Country, Spain. It is owned by Euskal Trenbide Sarea and operated by Euskotren. It lies on the Txorierri line.

History

The original terminus of the line was the nearby Kurtzea station (originally known as Lezama station), which was opened together with the Txorierri line in 1894.^[2] In 1994,^[3]^[4] the railway was extended and a new station was built closer to the population center of the town.^[5]

In October 2009, a 300 series train crashed into a buffer stop at the station, killing the driver and injuring several passengers.^[6]

The station was renovated in 2018 after trains on the Txorierri line started running through metro line 3.^[7]

Services

The station is served by Euskotren Trena line E3. It runs every 15 minutes (in each direction) during weekdays, and every 30 minutes during weekends.^[8]

References

^ "Accesibility". Euskotren. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ Peris Torner, Juan (21 March 2012). "Ferrocarril de Bilbao a Lezama (Suburbanos de Bilbao)". Spanish Railway (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
^ Olaizola Elordi, Juanjo (2017). "La red ferroviaria vasca, del colapso a la modernidad (1977-2017)" (PDF). VII Congreso de Historia Ferroviaria (in Spanish). Asociación Ibérica de Historia Ferroviaria. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^ Olaizola Elordi, Juanjo (2020). Línea 3, eslabón clave (PDF) (in Spanish). Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco. p. 38. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^ Olaizola Elordi, Juanjo (March 2020). "De Bilbao a Lezama, 125 años de historia sobre carriles". Vía Libre (in Spanish). No. 649. p. 96. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "Muere el conductor de un tren en Vizcaya al empotrarse contra un muro". El País (in Spanish). Lezama. 8 October 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ Arluzea, Ane (10 March 2018). "Las estaciones del tren en Txorierri, equiparadas a la imagen de la Línea 3". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "L3-E3" (PDF). Euskotren (in Spanish and Basque). Retrieved 7 June 2022.