Classic route
Alfa Pendular
Lisbon → Faro · Portugal
Alfa Pendular in pictures
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- Distance
- 304 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 52 min
- Average speed
- 106 km/h
- Top speed
- 220 km/h
- Operator
- CP
- Train
- CP 4000 Pendolino
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 2004
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Portugal’s tilting Pendolino leans into the curves at up to 220 km/h, dropping down the Alentejo to the Algarve at Faro.
How this line was checked
- The 302 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 18732710 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 26 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 11 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 180
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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Planning this trip? Journey time & direct trains: Faro → Lisbon · Lisbon → Faro.