High-speed route
Alvia
Madrid → Santander · Spain
- Distance
- 440 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Average speed
- 110 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Renfe S-730 gauge-changer
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1866
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Off the high-speed line at Palencia and over the 1866 Reinosa pass — a mountain descent to the Cantabrian Sea and Santander’s curved bay.
How this line was checked
- The 178 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1374499 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 13 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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