Classic route
Celta
Porto → Vigo · Portugal · Spain
- Distance
- 180 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 35 min
- Average speed
- 70 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- CP · Renfe
- Train
- IC Celta
- Countries
- Portugal, Spain
- In service since
- 1886
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only train across the Portugal–Spain border in the north: down the Minho, over the Valença bridge, into Galicia — two countries, one ticket, 2 h 35.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9604871 — 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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Comboios de Portugal — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in PT) ↗
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