Mountain route
Tibidabo Funicular (Cuca de Llum)
Barcelona (Plaça Doctor Andreu) → Tibidabo · Spain
Tibidabo Funicular (Cuca de Llum) in pictures
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- Distance
- 1.13 km
- Fastest time
- 4 min
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Operator
- Parc d’Atraccions Tibidabo (BSM)
- Train
- Glass-roofed ’Cuca de Llum’ trains from the 2021 rebuild
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1901
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Barcelona’s 1901 summit line to the Tibidabo amusement park and Sagrat Cor temple, reborn in 2021 as the glass ’glow-worm’ trains.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9171319 — 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 1 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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