Mountain route
Cremallera de Montserrat
Monistrol de Montserrat → Montserrat · Spain
Cremallera de Montserrat in pictures
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- Distance
- 5 km
- Fastest time
- 20 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- FGC
- Train
- GTW rack-and-adhesion railcars
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1892
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A rack railway climbing the serrated massif to the Benedictine monastery at 720 m: the pilgrims’ way to Catalonia’s black Madonna since 1892.
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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: FGC — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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