The Seville Metro fleet consists of 17 articulated low-floor Urbos 2 light rail vehicles (LRVs) manufactured by CAF.

[4] It was the sixth Metro system to be built in Spain, after those in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Palma de Mallorca.

Seville was then the third Spanish city to plan the construction of a metro-system, after Madrid and Barcelona, which already had metro systems in operation for decades.

Popular local newspapers such as the ABC de Sevilla campaigned against the construction of the metro, citing the system as a threat for historical buildings and monuments because of the "fragile characteristics of the Sevillian soil".

In 1999, fifteen years after the works were halted, PSOE and Partido Andalucista reached an agreement to reactivate construction, citing technological advances and considerable population growth as the reasons.

A new study project was ordered by the Junta de Andalucía, planning a network covering Seville and its metropolitan area (over 1.5 million inhabitants) formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.

The Junta de Andalucía finally approved the project in 2003, with the aim of promoting railway systems in various areas of Andalusia.

Construction of Line 1 began in September 2003, starting with the rehabilitation of the flooded Nervion station, whose works were halted 25 years prior.

A few months later, TUSSAM bought the trams, which were eventually brought back to their manufacturer, CAF, and sold once again to the Seville Metro in 2010.

[2] After Line 1 was inaugurated in 2009, Seville Metro projects were halted due to the global financial crisis that severely struck Spain.