High-speed route
AVE
Barcelona → Málaga · Spain
- Distance
- 1,121 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 52 min
- Average speed
- 191 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- S-112 "Pato"
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2013
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A single high-speed run tying the Mediterranean to the Costa del Sol, skirting Madrid to stitch two AVE corridors together.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11082425 (631 km), relation 1374172 (505 km) — 1,136 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 8.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of IRY 6020
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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