High-speed route
Alvia Madrid–Cádiz
Madrid → Cádiz · Spain
Off the 1992 Madrid–Seville high-speed spine, a gauge-changing Talgo carries on through sherry country to the Atlantic at Cádiz.
- Distance
- 664 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 150 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmMadrid Atocha +15
- 344 kmCórdoba-Julio Anguita +6
- 574 kmJerez de la Frontera +1
- 589 kmEl Puerto de Santa María +1
- 623 kmCádiz +1
The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11887426 (470 km), relation 11378450 (86 km), 556 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of A 2074
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Alvia?
The Alvia runs 664 km from Madrid to Cádiz.
How long does the Alvia take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 4 h 25 min for the 664 km. That is an average of 150 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 250 km/h.
Who runs the Alvia?
Renfe.
How old is the Alvia?
The line has been in service since 1992. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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