Classic route
C-1 Gijon-Puente de los Fierros
Gijon → Puente de los Fierros · Spain
- Distance
- 74 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 21 min
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Train
- Renfe Cercanias EMU
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1881
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up the Caudal valley from the Asturian coast through Oviedo and Pola de Lena to Puente de los Fierros, where the line stops at the foot of the Pajares ramp and the climb to Leon begins.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 207195 — 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: Renfe — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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