Metro Pantitlán
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Metro Zaragoza
Metro Zaragoza is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Colonia 4 arboles and Colonia Puebla neighbourhoods of Venustiano Carranza borough, to the east of downtown Mexico City...
Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1
Mexico City Metro Line 1 is one of the 16 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first to be built, the identifying color is pink and runs through the city from west to east....
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Metro Hangares
Metro Hangares is a surface metro station along Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located near the intersection of Fuerza Aérea Mexicana and Correos y Telégrafos in the Colonia Federal neighborhood of the Venustiano Carranza, D.F. borough of Mexico City.Its logo represents a hangar, several...
Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5
Mexico City Metro Line 5 is one of the 11 metro lines built in Mexico City, Mexico.It has as its color the color yellow and runs from the north to the east...
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Metro Puebla
Metro Puebla is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Puebla district of the Iztacalco delegation of Mexico City; both the area it is located in and the station are named for the nearby city of Puebla...
Line 9
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Line A
Agrícola Oriental
Metro Agrícola Oriental
Metro Agrícola Oriental is a metro station on Line A of the Mexico City Metro system.It opened on 12 August 1991 as did the other stations along the rest of Line A.The logo for the station represents two spikes of wheat....
Metro Pantitlán is a station
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....
on the Mexico City Metro
Mexico City Metro
The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...
. It is located in the Iztacalco
Iztacalco
Iztacalco is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It is located in the center-east of the district and is the smallest of the city’s boroughs. The area’s history began in 1309 when the island of Iztacalco, in what was Lake Texcoco, was settled in 1309 by the...
borough, to the east of downtown Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
city centre. The architects were Aurelio Nuño Morales
Aurelio Nuño Morales
- Biography :Nuño studied at the faculty of architecture and urban planning of the Universidad Iberoamericana from 1967 to 1972.He worked together with Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz and Carlos Mijares Bracho Since 1984 he has worked together with Carlos Mac Gregor Ancinola, Clara de Buen Richkarday and...
and Isaac Broid.
The station logo is the silhouette of two flags; this is because Pantitlán means "between flags" in the Aztec
Aztec
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...
language Nahuatl
Nahuatl
Nahuatl is thought to mean "a good, clear sound" This language name has several spellings, among them náhuatl , Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl. In a back formation from the name of the language, the ethnic group of Nahuatl speakers are called Nahua...
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Pantitlán station is the most important transfer station on the Mexico City Metro. It is the terminal for Lines 1, 5, 9 and A and has the highest user-traffic of the whole metro system. It is also one of the largest stations in the world, connecting four Metro lines, a trolleybus
Trolleybus
A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from overhead wires using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires and poles are required to complete the electrical circuit...
line (STE route Q), and around a hundred bus lines. Because of its large size and improvised design, it is important to follow the signs to the different platforms. The link with Line A allows Mexico State (Estado de México) inhabitants to travel to Mexico City faster and cheaper than by bus or other kinds of transportation. The station was opened for service along Line 5 on 19 December 1981, along Line 1 on 22 August 1984, along Line 9 on 26 August 1987, along Line A on 12 August 1991.
Some curiosities are that all "numbered" Metro lines, and Line B, use pneumatic traction (rubber-tired trains) and gather electricity from a third rail; trains on Line A use traditional rail traction, and gather electricity with a pantograph
Pantograph (rail)
A pantograph for rail lines is a hinged electric-rod device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams. The pantograph typically connects to a one-wire line, with the track acting as the ground wire...
, from overhead wires
Overhead lines
Overhead lines or overhead wires are used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains at a distance from the energy supply point...
. In addition, scenes for the 1990 motion picture
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
Total Recall
Total Recall
Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox & Mel Johnson, Jr.. It is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”...
were filmed in the corridors and platforms of Metro Pantitlán.