Scenic route
Mr Henderson’s Railway
Algeciras → Antequera Santa Ana · Spain
Mr Henderson’s Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 180 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 155 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Media Distancia · Alvia
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1892
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up the Serranía de Ronda from Gibraltar bay: the British-built 1892 line that is Mr Henderson’s railway proper, Algeciras to the Bobadilla plain, ending today at Antequera Santa Ana’s high-speed interchange.
How this line was checked
- The 176 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11768752 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 29 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IR 35065
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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