Classic route
Jaén–Cádiz
Jaén → Cádiz · Spain
- Distance
- 415 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h
- Average speed
- 83 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Media Distancia
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1881
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One train across all Andalucía: olive country at Jaén, the Guadalquivir at Córdoba and Seville, sherry country at Jerez, and the Atlantic at Cádiz.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11378448 (89 km), relation 11498244 (58 km) — 147 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IR 35079
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