Luxury route
El Transcantábrico
San Sebastián → Santiago de Compostela · Spain
El Transcantábrico in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,000 km
- Fastest time
- 8 days
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Metre-gauge saloon cars
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1983
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Spain’s first hotel-train (1983): an eight-day, metre-gauge cruise along the green Cantabrian coast from the Basque Country to Galicia.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 6634816 (114 km), relation 2063423 (298 km) — 413 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 82.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 46 m); the longest stretch away from it is 10.5 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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