Luxury route
El Expreso de La Robla
Bilbao → León · Spain
El Expreso de La Robla in pictures
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- Distance
- 335 km
- Fastest time
- 3 days
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- FEVE narrow-gauge saloons
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2003
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Retraces the historic La Robla coal railway, Spain’s longest narrow-gauge line, on a three-day luxury run between Bilbao and León.
How this line was checked
- The 323 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8394574 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 89 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 26 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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