High-speed route
AVE Madrid–Granada
Madrid → Granada · Spain
Opened in 2019, it branches off the Córdoba–Málaga line at Antequera to lift the AVE network into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
- Distance
- 568 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 184 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmMadrid Atocha +15
- 171 kmCiudad Real +3
- 210 kmPuertollano +4
- 343 kmCórdoba-Julio Anguita +6
- 419 kmPuente Genil-Herrera +2
- 454 kmAntequera-Santa Ana +5
- 568 kmGranada +2
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 1374172 (453 km), relation 2869549 (112 km), 565 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of AVE 2076
- 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 AVE?
The AVE runs 568 km from Madrid to Granada.
How long does the AVE take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 3 h 5 min for the 568 km. That is an average of 184 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.
Who runs the AVE?
Renfe, with S-112 "Pato".
How old is the AVE?
The line has been in service since 2019. 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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