Classic route
Intercidades
Lisbon → Guarda · Portugal
Intercidades in pictures
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- Distance
- 353 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 11 min
- Average speed
- 84 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- CP
- Train
- CP 5600 + Corail
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 1882
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Climbs the Beira Alta line to Guarda, Portugal’s highest city at 1,056 m, on the historic Sud Express path toward the Spanish border.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11579191 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 47 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 13 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IC
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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