Classic route
Linha da Beira Alta
Guarda → Vilar Formoso · Portugal
- Distance
- 45 km
- Fastest time
- 39 min
- Average speed
- 69 km/h
- Train
- CP Regional railcar
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 1882
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The last forty five kilometres of Portugal, Guarda out to the Spanish frontier at Vilar Formoso across the high Beira, on the line to the border inaugurated on 3 August 1882.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9632766 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Comboios de Portugal — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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