Euromed

The Euromed has run the Mediterranean Corridor since 1997, wide-gauge Talgos lapping the coast from Barcelona to Valencia in under three hours and on to Alicante in about five and a half. It is Spain’s great sea-window railway: the Garraf cliffs beyond Sitges, the Roman skyline of Tarragona, then kilometre after kilometre of beach, castle and orange grove down the Costa del Azahar past Peñíscola and Sagunto. South of Valencia it leaves the coast for the Iberian-gauge line of 1858 through Xàtiva and Villena. The parallel high-speed line keeps shaving minutes; the shoreline run keeps the passengers.

Stations

1. 0 kmBarcelona Sants +8
2. 290 kmCastelló de la Plana
3. 364 kmEstació del Nord +2
4. 365 kmValencia-Joaquín Sorolla +2
5. 543 kmAlicante +3

The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Garraf cliffs after Sitges
• Tarragona’s Roman balcony
• Ebro delta edge at L’Aldea
• Peñíscola across the bay
• Sagunto castle hill
• Valencia orange country

How this line was checked

• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 10.5 km
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of EM 1071
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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