High-speed route
Alvia
Madrid → Cádiz · Spain
- Distance
- 664 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 150 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Renfe S-130 gauge-changing Talgo
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1992
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Off the 1992 Madrid–Seville high-speed spine, a gauge-changing Talgo carries on through sherry country to the Atlantic at Cádiz.
How this line was checked
- The 470 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11887426 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IR 17191
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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