Heritage route
Ferrocarril de Riotinto
Talleres Mina → Los Frailes · Spain
Ferrocarril de Riotinto in pictures
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- Distance
- 11 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 7 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Fundación Río Tinto
- Train
- Restored mine coaches; steam on winter Sundays
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1875
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Restored mining stock creeps along the blood-red Río Tinto through a Mars-like landscape mined for 5,000 years — Victorian steam hauls it on winter Sundays.
How this line was checked
- The 10 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 12928204 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 86% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 5 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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