Madrid Metro Line 7
From Pitis to Estadio Metropolitano and, with a change of train, on to Hospital del Henares via Coslada and San Fernando.
About Line 7
Hospital del Henares – Barrio del Puerto
Line 7 has two sections that are run separately. The main one, with 24 stations, runs from Pitis, in Fuencarral-El Pardo, down through Tetuán to Chamberí; there it turns east along Cea Bermúdez, José Abascal, María de Molina and Avenida de América to Cartagena, and continues through Parque de las Avenidas, Ciudad Lineal and San Blas-Canillejas to Estadio Metropolitano. From there, MetroEste carries on for seven more stations through Coslada and San Fernando de Henares to Hospital del HenaresES.
You can change to Line 2 at Canal, Line 10 at Gregorio MarañónES, Line 5 at Pueblo Nuevo, and the circular line at Guzmán el Bueno and Avenida de América, where Lines 4 and 9 also stop. There are Cercanías commuter-rail connections at Pitis and Coslada Central. The line crosses Line 1 with no direct interchange.
Length: the sum of the distances between consecutive stations published by the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM) in its open data (network routes, updated on 29 May 2026), in one direction and counting every section of the line. It measures from the first station to the last, without the track that continues beyond the termini, so other published figures for the length of the line may be higher. Neither Metro de Madrid nor the CRTM publishes an official length for each line.
Stations on Line 7
31 stations, 5 of them with an interchange to another line (marked with a ring and the colours of the other lines).
Estadio Metropolitano – Pitis
Main route, 24 stations
Branch from Hospital del Henares
Rejoins it at Estadio Metropolitano
History
The line opened on 17 July 1974 between Pueblo Nuevo and Las Musas, and reached Avenida de América on 17 March 1975. For more than twenty years it was a radial line that did not go through the centre, and the long change at Avenida de América kept its ridership below average.
The western extension opened in four phases: Gregorio Marañón on 13 March 1998, Alonso Cano and Canal on 16 October, Valdezarza on 12 February 1999 and, on 29 March, the stations from Antonio Machado to Lacoma. For years Pitis had restricted hours: it closed at 22:10 and the line then terminated at Lacoma, until 1 May 2018. Arroyofresno, built years earlier, opened on 23 March 2019.
In the east, the section from Las Musas to Henares opened on 5 May 2007, with Estadio Olímpico station, renamed Estadio Metropolitano on 26 June 2017, followed by Hospital del Henares on 11 February 2008. MetroEste suffered subsidence and water ingress because a salt deposit in the ground was dissolving: it closed partly or fully on several occasions, was cut from 27 July 2024 and reopened in full on 22 November 2025.
Hours and frequency
At Estadio Metropolitano you have to change trains across a central platform. Heading for MetroEste the change is direct, but you need a valid ticket to exit through the ticket gates between Barrio del Puerto and Hospital del Henares; in the other direction, a zone A ticket is validated when you enter the Madrid section. The operator gives intervals of 4.5 to 5.5 minutes in the weekday morning peak and 5.5 to 6.5 for the rest of the day. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays there is a train every 7.5 minutes for most of the day, and after midnight every 15.
The trains
Since 2006 the main section has run six-car 9000-series trains, although in May 2026, because of a shortage of units, 7000-series trains transferred from Line 10 joined for the first time. Since 2007 MetroEste has used the 9700 series, the three-car version of the 9000s. In the seventies the line started out with the 5000 series and, for a few months, with units of the 1000 series.
Frequently asked questions
Because MetroEste, which leaves the municipality of Madrid, is run as a separate section in a different fare zone. You change by crossing a central platform, just as at Puerta de Arganda (Line 9) and Tres Olivos (Line 10).
Water seeping from the Jarama river dissolved a salt deposit beneath the route: the ground sank near HenaresES and at Hospital del Henares it rose. There were several closures from 2007, the last from 27 July 2024, and the section reopened in full on 22 November 2025.
Since 26 June 2017, when the former Estadio Olímpico station was renamed for the opening of Atlético de Madrid’s new stadium next to it: the old Estadio de la Peineta. The station had opened on 5 May 2007.