São Paulo - Metropolitan Trains

[brandi]

SÃO PAULO – Urban Rails

São Paulo's is among the younger metros in the world and it's considered one of the most modern although today's extension does not cover all areas of this populous city. The metro network (Lines 1-3, 49 km) is complemented by a 270 km suburban network operated by CPTM (Lines A-F). Two new subway lines must be concluded in 2006 and the total network will reach 340 km. The metro runs underground through the city centre but on elevated structures or at grade in outer areas. To reduce the cost of new construction the decision was taken to upgrade some suburban lines to metro standard to provide more frequent service. This was already finished along Line E > 6, which serves the eastern neighbourhoods of the city and operates like an express metro parallel to Line 3, and on Line C > 7, although both lines are still operated by CPTM.


Subway and Metropolitan train scheme
http://img25.exs.cx/img25/5917/sao-paulo-map.gif

Metro – Ana Rosa Station – line 1 - blue
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/1402/Ana_Rosa.jpg

Metro – Brás station – line 3 – red – crossing with metropolitan another line of train
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/3264/Bras_Metro_elevated.jpg

Metro – Brigadeiro station – line 2 - green
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/7127/Brigadeiro_station_from_train.jpg

Metropolitan train – Brás station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/7113/Bras_Station_Panorama.jpg

Metropolitan train – Brás station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/5706/bras-station.jpg

Trem Metropolitano – estação Dom Bosco
Metropolitan train – Dom Bosco station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/3856/Dom_Bosco_Station_far_east_of_Sao_Paulo.jpg

Metro – line 5 – violet – Capão Redondo station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/4180/Capao_Redondo_Station.jpg

Metro – line 3 – green – Consolação Station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/9144/Consolacao_platform_and_book_vending_2.jpg

Metro – line 5 – violet – Largo Treze Station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/7784/Largo_Treze_Station_platform.jpg

Metropolitan Train arrived at Luz Station which is integrated with Metro lines
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/9647/Line_A_train_to_Luz_6.jpg

Metropolitan train – Luz Station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/306/luz-station1.jpg
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/876/Luz_Station_from_west.jpg
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/9840/Luz_Station_tracks_2.jpg

Metropolitan train – inner view of Luz Station
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/7959/Luz_Station_inside.jpg

Metro – line 1 - blue – Liberdade Station – (oriental district)
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1372/Liberdade_Station.jpg

Metro – line 1 - blue – Liberdade Station – (oriental district)
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/4232/Liberdade_Station_Japanese_Add.jpg

Metro – line 3 – red – Pedro II Station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/4091/line3-pedro-II-1.jpg

Metro – line 3 – red – Train and downtown skyline
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/6740/Line_3_train_and_downtown_skyline.jpg

Metro – line 3 – green – Sumaré Station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/13/line2-sumare-1.jpg

inside_a_Line_6_train http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7729/inside_a_Line_6_train.jpg

line7-santo-amaro1
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7234/line7-santo-amaro1.jpg

Line_5_train_interior http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1506/Line_5_train_interior.jpg

Line_6_and_D_trains_at_Luz http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7555/Line_6_and_D_trains_at_Luz_3.jpg

Line_6_train_arrives_at_Luz http://img3.exs.cx/img3/4343/Line_6_train_arrives_at_Luz.jpg

Line_6_train_at_Bras http://img3.exs.cx/img3/6066/Line_6_train_at_Bras_2.jpg

Metropolitan train – line 6
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/9069/Line_6_train_head_side_2.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7561/Line_6_train_interior.jpg

Line_7_train_at_Cidade_Universitária_Station http://img3.exs.cx/img3/349/Line_6_train_leaving_Bras_4.jpg

Line_7_train_at_Cid1_Univ_Station http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7892/Line_7_train_at_Cid1_Univ_Station.jpg

Line_A_train_to_Luz
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7352/Line_A_train_to_Luz_5.jpg

Vila_Olimpia_platform http://img3.exs.cx/img3/4350/Vila_Olimpia_platform.jpg

Vila_Olimpia_platform
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1715/Vila_Olimpia_platform.jpg

Luz_Line_1_Station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/8181/Luz_Line_1_Station.jpg

Paraiso_station_ http://img3.exs.cx/img3/9965/Paraiso_station_2.jpg

Republica_Metro_Train http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1193/Republica_Metro_Train.jpg

Republica_Metro http://img3.exs.cx/img3/6517/Republica_Metro_3.jpg

Metro – line 5 - violet - Capão Redondo – Largo Treze
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/3645/sp-line5-02.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/4640/sp-line5-03.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1315/sp-line5-04.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/8793/sp-line5-06.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/8114/sp-line5-01.jpg

Sumare_station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1149/Sumare_station.jpg

Metro – line 2 – green – Vila Madalena Station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/2526/train_at_Vila_Madalena_2.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/2599/Vila_Madalena_access.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1079/Vila_Madalena_station.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/450/Vila_Madalena_station_6.jpg

Metro – line 2 – green – Trianon – Masp Station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/1484/Trianon_Masp_platform.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/2667/Trianon-Masp_station_2.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/9715/Trianon-Masp_station_4.jpg
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/6223/Trianon-Masp_station_turnstiles.jpg

Metro – Sé (grand central) Station
http://img3.exs.cx/img3/946/Se_Station__vert1_.jpg

[SpastiK]

nice pics!!!!!

thank you very much to let me know how is the metro in Sao Paulo. I seems clean with a good service :)

:okay:

[Küsel]

Really great pics!!!!

So the line 4 is not open yet? Is there a date proposed for the opening? That means that there is still the Ponte Orca?

I love the Vila Olimpia, Barra Funda, Se - and especially the bridge-tunnel station of Sumare (nice few!) a lot.

[elfreako]

http://img3.exs.cx/img3/4232/Liberdade_Station_Japanese_Add.jpg

WTF? Looks like Tokyo!!!

Anyway, SP needs at LEAST another 10 subway lines like Mexico City. I was really surprised how pathetically small SP's subway network is.

[elfreako]

http://img127.exs.cx/img127/306/luz-station1.jpg
SAO PAULO

http://www41.tok2.com/home/sydney/cent2.jpg
SYDNEY

What is going on here??!!!

[GENIUS LOCI]

GREAT PICS:okay:

The stations seem furnished like Milan metro Line 2!
Same pavement, same panels, same types, even same colour (green for Line 2 in Milan)...
Don't you know if they commissioned the construction of the stations, or only their furnishment,at MM spa (Metropolitana Milanese), the ingeneering society of Milan metro?

[Fabio]

really great pics, it's a pity the metro is so small in Sao Paulo.


:okay:

[mopc]

Hi, I'm Mauricio Carvalho and I'm the author of the São Paulo pics above, which I donated to the Urbanrail.net site. I have many more pics, and a lot of information on São Paulo and its rail network. E-mail me or pm me if you want.

I would like the Australian guy to repost his Sydney station pic, because the link is broken. I've always known that São Paulo's Luz Station was exactly like Sydney's station, but I have never seen Sydney Station... so please!

[FM7]

Nice pics, lots of variety, people, city, crowds. Thanks for sharing them.

[mopc]

Really great pics!!!!

So the line 4 is not open yet? Is there a date proposed for the opening? That means that there is still the Ponte Orca?


Yes, Ponte Orca is still there, even though it was almost abolished because of bureaucratic garbage.

Line 4 is in its inital phase of construction, schedule to open commercially by 2007 only five of the eleven stations will exist at this stage - Luz, Republica, Paulista (linked with Consolacao) Pinheiros and Butanta. These are vital because they are the ones that connect line 4 with the other lines - line four intersect all but line 5.

Line 2 (green, Paulista line) is being extended eastward to the Ipiranga region, three stations will open in 2006: Chácara Klabin, Imigrantes and Ipiranga. Then it will go on to Sacomã station, then the line intersects with CPTM line D at Tamaduateí station, where it proceeds to Vila Prudente station. These two last stations still have no schedule to open.

Line 5 will be extende to Santa Cruz and Chácara Klabin stations, gaining some 10 underground stations... its gonna be huge but I dont see it happening before 2012.

[mopc]

Hm, now I see the Sydney station pic..... it doesnt look like Luz at all! And its uglier too... weird, I was told Luz and Sydney central were exact copies.

[Küsel]

Thanks for the metro info! At least it goes fast - here it would take another 10 years only to go through the planning and burocratic phase... The want to make an additional tram line here for years - maybe it will open in 2010 (planning started in the end 90s...) When I think that I was first in Osasco in early 2002 and then again one year later - boom! There was the Rodoanel!!! Increadable. I also wonder how far they are with the Tiete restauration...

[Klas]

wow nice thread , more pictures pls

[samba_man]

Great pics.....São Paulo metro are really awesome!!

[Falubaz]

that is thrugh. i like it very much!!! more pics please...

[DaDvD]

Nice trains and transport system, although it needs heavy expansion!

[Rene Nunez]

Very modern/minimalist subway. I love it! I was wondering whether it is ever overused/ as in always crowded? Does it have a huge ridership?

[deli]

very very nice pic for a wonderful metro system. thanx for sharing!!!

[cal_t]

Does it not have air con on some of the trains?

[mopc]

Yes, line 5 has air conditioning, as well as lines 7 and 6.

You people want more pictures??? Well, it took me two whole days to take the above pitcures, I do have more in my hard disk, I might post them soon, those the above are the best.

I might go to São Paulo some other day to take pictures of remote, very little known lines. Line A, in the north of the city is especially interesting with old British-style station like Luz, only small, and even older, from circa 1885 (Luz is from 1901).

Next march line green 2 will gain two new stations and a third one in September, so be prepared, besides line F will be revamped and also gain 3 new stations within a year from now or so. Line D´s extreme south is also interesting, with old stations. Brace yourselves for a whole new batch of São Paulo metro pics by MOPC!!!!

[Falubaz]

of course we DO want more pics!!!
can't wait

[mopc]

I´m itching to take new pics, especially of the northern and western lines!