Classic route
MD León–Ponferrada
León → Ponferrada · Spain
- Distance
- 128 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 55 min
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Train
- Renfe Media Distancia
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1882
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Rampa de Brañuelas took more than a decade to build and helped bankrupt the company that began it. León to Ponferrada over the Montes de León in under two hours, through since 4 February 1882.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1878688 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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