El Pozo railway station
| 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]
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