High-speed route
AVE
Madrid → Zaragoza · Spain
AVE in pictures
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- Distance
- 307 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 246 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- S-103 Velaro
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2003
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The first stretch of Spain’s Madrid–Barcelona line (2003), crossing the Guadalajara plateau and Ebro valley to Zaragoza in 75 minutes.
How this line was checked
- The 307 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 309363 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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