Lisbon Metro Yellow Line

The Yellow Line (Portuguese: Linha Amarela) or Sunflower Line (Portuguese: Linha do Girassol) is one of the four lines of Lisbon Metro.

Yellow Line
Lisbon metro station Picoas
Overview
Other name(s)	Sunflower Line
Native name	Linha Amarela
Owner	Government-owned corporation
Locale	Lisbon Odivelas  Portugal
Termini	Odivelas Rato
Connecting lines
Stations	13
Service
Type	Rapid Transit
System	Metropolitano de Lisboa
Operator(s)	Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE
Rolling stock	ML90, ML95, ML97, ML99
History
Opened	December 29, 1959 (65 years ago) (1959-12-29) (original network) July 15, 1995 (30 years ago) (1995-07-15) (independent line)
Technical
Line length	11 km (6.8 mi)
Character	Underground subway
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	750 V DC third rail
Route map Legend Odivelas × R. Gen. Roçadas × R. Costa × CRIL × R. Álvares Cabral × R. Sr. Roubado Senhor Roubado ⇡ 0ODV0  ⇣ 0LSB0  × Calçada de Carriche Ameixoeira Lumiar Quinta das Conchas (pj. Lamb., Mouras) branch line → PMO II Green Line → Alvalade × R. Cipr. Dourado Campo Grande ⇄ Green Line × bus station access × bus station access × Green Line Green Line → Telheiras Cidade Universitária Entre Campos ⇄ L. Cintura: Entrecampos Campo Pequeno Red Line → São Sebastião × Red Line Saldanha ⇄ Red Line Red Line → Alameda Picoas × Rua de São Sebastião da Pedreira Blue Line → Parque "Y" line ➁ (until 1995) × Blue Line branch line ➀ → Blue Line Marquês de Pombal (until 1995 Rotunda) ⇄ Blue L. Blue Line → Avenida × L. Sintra: T. Rossio Rato ⇄ L. Sintra: Rato (cancelled pj.) Estrela (proj.) Santos (proj.) Cais do Sodré ⇄ L. Casc.: C. S.; TT ∥ Tagus Green Line → Baixa-Chiado Topographic map

Stations

Code	Station name	Distance (km)		Transfers	Location
		Inter- station	Total
OD	Odivelas	—	0.0		Odivelas	Odivelas
SR	Senhor Roubado	1.0	1.0	Senhor Roubado bus terminal
AX	Ameixoeira	1.7	2.7		Santa Clara	Lisbon
LU	Lumiar	0.9	3.6		Lumiar
QC	Quinta das Conchas	1.0	4.6		Olivais
CG	Campo Grande	0.9	5.5	Green Line Campo Grande bus terminal	Alvalade
CU	Cidade Universitária	0.8	6.3
EC	Entre Campos	1.1	7.4	Sintra Line/Fertagus (Entrecampos)
CP	Campo Pequeno	0.7	8.1		Avenidas Novas
SL	Saldanha	0.7	8.8	Red Line
PC	Picoas	0.7	9.5
MP	Marquês de Pombal	0.7	10.2	Blue Line Rotunda bus terminal
RA	Rato	0.7	10.9		Santo António

Odivelas
Senhor Roubado
Ameixoeira
Lumiar
Quinta das Conchas
Campo Grande
Cidade Universitária
Entre Campos
Campo Pequeno
Saldanha
Picoas
Marquês de Pombal
Rato

Frequency

	Summer timetable[1]		Winter timetable[1]
	Time	Headway	Time	Headway
Working days	06:30 - 07:20 07:20 - 09:30 09:30 - 16:40 16:40 - 20:00 20:00 - 20:30 20:30 - 22:30 22:30 - 01:05	07' 50" 05' 05" 07' 50" 06' 10" 07' 40" 07' 25" 10' 20"	06:30 - 07:15 07:15 - 09:30 09:30 - 10:00 10:00 - 16:40 10:00 - 16:40 16:40 - 17:30 17:30 - 19:00 19:00 - 19:30 19:30 - 20:00 20:00 - 21:00 21:00 - 22:00 22:00 - 01:05	07' 50" 04' 20" 05' 00" 05' 50"* 11' 40"** 04' 40" 04' 45" 06' 10" 06' 50" 08' 55" 08' 45" 10' 30"
Weekends and holidays	06:30 - 07:30 07:30 - 20:30 20:30 - 01:05	08' 40' 08' 45' 10' 25'	6:30 - 07:30 07:30 - 20:30 20:30 - 01:05	08' 40' 08' 45' 10' 25'

_*Rato - Campo Grande
_**Campo Grande - Odivelas

Chronology

• December 29, 1959: Opening of the original Lisbon Metro network with a Y shape. Common branch stations: Restauradores, Avenida, Rotunda (former name of the Marquês de Pombal station and where the line would split into the two branches). Current Blue Line branch stations (coming from Rotunda station): Parque, São Sebastião, Palhavã (former name of the Praça de Espanha station) and Sete Rios (former name of the Jardim Zoológico station). Current Yellow Line branch stations (coming from Rotunda station): Picoas, Saldanha, Campo Pequeno and Entre Campos.
• January 27, 1963: Opening of the Rossio station. Main branch route: Restauradores - Rossio.
• September 28, 1966: Opening of the Socorro (former name of the Martim Moniz station), Intendente and Anjos stations. Main branch route: Restauradores - Anjos.
• June 18, 1972: Opening of the Arroios, Alameda, Areeiro, Roma and Alvalade stations. Main branch route: Restauradores - Alvalade.
• October 15, 1988: Opening of the Cidade Universitária, Laranjeiras, Alto dos Moinhos and Colégio Militar/Luz stations. Current Blue Line branch route: Rotunda - Colégio Militar/Luz. Current Yellow Line branch route: Rotunda - Cidade Universitária.
• April 3, 1993: Opening of the Campo Grande station. Main branch route: Restauradores - Campo Grande. Current Yellow Line branch route: Rotunda - Campo Grande.
• July 15, 1995: Creation of the Blue and Yellow lines by building a second Rotunda station. New Yellow line route: Rotunda - Campo Grande.
• December 29, 1997: Opening of the Rato station. Line route: Rato - Campo Grande.
• March 1, 1998: Rotunda station is renamed to Marquês de Pombal.
• March 27, 2004: Opening of the Quinta das Conchas, Lumiar, Ameixoeira, Senhor Roubado and Odivelas stations. Line route: Rato - Odivelas.^[2]

Future

• Plans are in place to extend the Yellow Line with two new stations (Santos and Estrela), connecting the Green Line on Cais do Sodré to the Yellow Line on Rato and creating a circle line with the merge of these two lines. Construction on this extension started in April, 2021.^[3]

See also

• List of Lisbon metro stations