High-speed route
AVE Madrid–Oviedo
Madrid → Oviedo · Spain
AVE Madrid–Oviedo in pictures
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- Distance
- 480 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h
- Average speed
- 160 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Renfe S-106 Avril
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 2023 Variante de Pajares pierced the Cantabrian wall with a 25 km base tunnel, cutting Asturias’ link to Madrid to about three hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1374499 (179 km), relation 5546933 (128 km) — 306 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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