Classic route
Ciudad Real–Badajoz railway
Ciudad Real → Badajoz · Spain
- Distance
- 334 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h 42 min
- Average speed
- 71 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Regional Exprés
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1866
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
338 km west across La Mancha and the Extremadura dehesa, from Ciudad Real to the Portuguese border city of Badajoz, on track opened in 1866.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6759901 — 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 0.2 km from the shape of R 18770 (Zug-Nr. 18770)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in ES) ↗
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