Scenic route
Rodalies R3
Barcelona → Latour-de-Carol · Spain · France
Rodalies R3 in pictures
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- Distance
- 160 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 49 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Rodalies EMU
- Countries
- Spain, France
- In service since
- 1922
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Climbs from Barcelona to 1,494 m at Toses — the roof of the Spanish network — to meet the Yellow Train across the platform at Latour-de-Carol.
How this line was checked
- The 119 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11104445 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 84.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 16.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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