Florenc

Interchange metro station · Karlín, Nové Město · until 1990 Sokolovská

Florenc is an interchange station of the Prague metro on lines B and C. The line B track lies 39.0 m below the street (open since 2 November 1985). The line C track lies 9.4 m below the street (open since 9 May 1974).

Florenc station — Photo: 01x07x2022000, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

39.0 mdeepest track

7thdeepest of 61

1985opened, line B

How deep is Florenc

At Florenc the track of line B lies 39.0 m below the street, the track of line C lies 9.4 m below the street. It is the 7th deepest of 61 platforms. That is roughly a 12-storey building below the pavement.

Elevation: line B: street 189 m a.s.l., track 150 m a.s.l.; line C: street 190 m a.s.l., track 181 m a.s.l. Depth is measured from the ground above the station to the track.

Escalators at Florenc

The longest escalator climbs about 23 m, which at a 30° slope means a run of about 46 m.

Escalators from OpenStreetMap, heights computed in the 3D model, length from the 30° slope.

Step-free access

Partly step-free: only some entrances or directions

Step-free entrances from the street: 1 of 6. Source: PID open data.

Entrances from the street: 6

E1 (B)Level entrance
E2 (B)Liftstep-free
E1 (C)Level entrance
E2 (C)Escalator
E3Stairs · 33 steps
E6Escalator + stairs · 46 steps

Official entrance names and step counts from PID.

Ridership

101 901people board or alight each day · 3rd busiest of 58

50 001 boardings51 900 alightings82 135 transfers

One ordinary Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 5 am to midnight (PID and DPP survey). No newer per-station data has been published.

About Florenc

Florenc is a major interchange station on the Prague Metro system, located beneath the busy Florenc intersection in Karlín, adjacent to Florenc bus station. It serves as a transfer point between Line B and Line C, each with its own platform and structural design. The station opened in 1974 for Line C (then known as Sokolovská until 1990), and in 1985 for Line B.

The Line B station is a three-aisle, column-type structure with an elevated central nave. It lies 39 meters underground, deeper than the Line C platform, which is 9.35 meters underground. It features 23 pairs of cross-passages and was constructed between 1977 and 1985 at a cost of 560 million Czechoslovak crowns. It initially served as the terminus of Line B until the 1990 extension.

The interior is clad in ceramic tiles in brown and beige tones. The transfer tunnel to Line C departs from the eastern end of the central nave and consists of two connected escalator tunnels. It connects perpendicularly to the Line C platform via a deep four-flight escalator.

Text: English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.