Classic route
Avant Málaga–Granada
Málaga → Granada · Spain
- Distance
- 165 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 23 min
- Average speed
- 119 km/h
- Train
- Renfe Avant
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2019
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Bobadilla branch of 1874 served Granada for a century and a half; its high speed replacement opened on 26 June 2019 and put Málaga an hour and twenty three minutes away, by Antequera and Loja.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16228313 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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