High-speed route
Euromed
Barcelona → Valencia · Spain
Euromed in pictures
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- Distance
- 350 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 127 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Talgo 250 (S-130)
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1997
- Runs
- ≈ every 1–2 h
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Talgo tilting sets swap the Madrid high-speed line for the classic Mediterranean corridor at Camp de Tarragona, running within sight of the beaches.
The Euromed has run the Mediterranean Corridor since 1997, wide-gauge Talgos lapping the coast between Barcelona and Valencia in under three hours. 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. The parallel high-speed line keeps shaving minutes; the shoreline run keeps the passengers.
How this line was checked
- The 254 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 18368664 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of EM 1071
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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
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