Classic route
Alicante–Murcia line
Alicante → Murcia · Spain
Alicante–Murcia line in pictures
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- Distance
- 77 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 54 min
- Average speed
- 86 km/h
- Train
- Alvia & Regional
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1884
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Iberian gauge since 1884, threading the Elche palm groves and the Segura valley between two provincial capitals in under an hour.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1624140 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of AVL 5668
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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