High-speed route
AVE
Madrid → A Coruña · Spain
AVE in pictures
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- Distance
- 646 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 36 min
- Average speed
- 179 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- S-106 Avril · S-730 Alvia
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Leaps into Galicia through 30 tunnels, including the 8.6 km O Corno bore, then runs on down the Atlantic axis through Santiago de Compostela to the coast at A Coruña.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6721028 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 51 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 16 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 35402 (Zug-Nr. 35402)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in ES) ↗
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