Classic route
Comboio Raiano
Abrantes → Badajoz · Portugal · Spain
- Distance
- 146 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 16 min
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
- Train
- CP Regional railcar
- Countries
- Portugal, Spain
- In service since
- 1863
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The borderland train across the cork oaks of the Alentejo, Abrantes to Badajoz by way of Ponte de Sor, Crato and Elvas, on the link to Spain that opened in September 1863.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8164947 — 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 3 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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