Mountain route
Cremallera de Montserrat
Monistrol de Montserrat → Montserrat · Spain
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A rack railway climbing the serrated massif to the Benedictine monastery at 720 m: the pilgrims’ way to Catalonia’s black Madonna since 1892.
Stations
- 0 kmMonistrol Enllaç (Cremallera)
- 1 kmMonistrol-Vila
- 5 kmMontserrat
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1325772 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.5 km from the shape of train 729
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Cremallera de Montserrat?
The Cremallera de Montserrat runs 5 km from Monistrol de Montserrat to Montserrat.
How long does the Cremallera de Montserrat take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 20 min for the 5 km. That is an average of 15 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 25 km/h.
Who runs the Cremallera de Montserrat?
FGC, with GTW rack-and-adhesion railcars.
How old is the Cremallera de Montserrat?
The line has been in service since 1892. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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