Classic route
Linares Baeza–Almería railway
Almería → Linares-Baeza · Spain
Linares Baeza–Almería railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 234 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 52 min
- Average speed
- 61 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Media Distancia
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1899
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Iberian gauge from the Alcázar–Cádiz main line at Linares down through the Sierra to the Mediterranean at Almería, through the desert country the spaghetti Westerns made famous.
How this line was checked
- The 232 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6641023 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 43 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 16 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IC 279
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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