Similarly, during weekdays, Metro stops at midnight, meaning that the last trains leave both ends of a given line at midnight. This means that the first trains start at both ends of a given line at 5 am, so it you’re willing to take the first train and you’re in the middle of a line, you will have to wait around 20/30 minutes before it gets to you. Opening timesĭuring weekdays, Metro starts running at 5 am. All services make stops at all stations, there are no express services and Metro lines end shortly after leaving the boundaries of the city.

Metro services are indicated from L1 to L11 (except for L6, L7 and L8, which are operated by FGC, see below). If you ask any local about Metro in English, he/she will be much more likely to understand you if you say metro rather than subway, tube or underground. Mosts tourists will come to Barcelona and simply use Metro -note that this is the way locals refer to it we don’t say suburbano, metropolitano, or subte, like in other Hispanic countries. More than 80 million travellers use it every year.

Some of their services will run only within Barcelona, making regular stops, same way as a metro, but some others will extend far away towards neighbouring cities. It has a ridership of around 120 million users per year.įinally, FGC (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat the Catalunya) is a hybrid service, with two main lines starting from Barcelona and extending to the outskirts. They make fewer stops in Barcelona so it’s also a more convenient and faster way to travel if your itinerary happens to coincide with one of their lines. On the opposite side of the scale, the Rodalies trains are regional and commuter trains. It has a ridership of around 1.1 million users every day. They operate in a similar way as any other European metro service. First, the Metro service, which is operated by TMB (the same company running the bus network). There are three types of trains travelling underground in Barcelona.

Pocket trains