High-speed route
Avant Madrid–Toledo
Madrid → Toledo · Spain
Thirty-three minutes off the Seville high-speed line to the city on the Tagus bend — El Greco’s Toledo as a Madrid day trip.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 15616203 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of A 8072
- 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 Avant Madrid–Toledo?
The Avant Madrid–Toledo runs 75 km from Madrid to Toledo.
How long does the Avant Madrid–Toledo take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 35 min for the 75 km. That is an average of 129 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 250 km/h.
Who runs the Avant Madrid–Toledo?
Renfe.
How old is the Avant Madrid–Toledo?
The line has been in service since 2005. 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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