AVE Madrid–Valencia

Opened in December 2010, this is the quick way from the capital to the Mediterranean: 391 km in as little as 1 h 40, with the duck-billed S-112 “Pato” sets doing much of the work. The line crosses the emptied heart of Castilla–La Mancha, calling at Cuenca’s field-side Fernando Zóbel station below the hanging houses, then drops through the Utiel-Requena wine plateau to the orange coast. Since liberalisation, Ouigo and iryo undercut and out-style each other on the same rails.

Stations

1. 0 kmPuerta de Atocha +15
2. 188 kmCuenca-Fernando Zóbel
3. 320 kmRequena - Utiel
4. 389 kmValència Joaquín Sorolla +2

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. 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.

Along the way

• La Mancha emptiness at 300 km/h
• Cuenca, gateway to the hanging houses
• Utiel-Requena vineyards
• Turia basin descent
• Joaquín Sorolla terminal

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1374671: 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 6 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of AVE 5890
• 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

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