Classic route
R13 Barcelona–Lleida
Barcelona → Lleida · Spain
- Distance
- 172 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 44 min
- Average speed
- 46 km/h
- Train
- Renfe regional
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1881
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Barcelona to Lleida the slow way, three and three quarter hours down the coast to Vilanova and then inland by Valls and Montblanc, on the Valls to Vilanova line of 29 December 1881.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6023370 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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