Classic route
El Insurgente
Mexico City → Zinacantepec · Mexico
El Insurgente in pictures
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- Distance
- 58 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Average speed
- 70 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Gobierno de México (SICT)
- Train
- CAF Civity EMU
- Countries
- Mexico
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Mexico’s 160 km/h interurban tunnels out of the Valley of Toluca: since February 2026 running the full 58 km into Observatorio in the capital.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16301409 — 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 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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