Heritage route
Tren de Felipe II
Madrid (Príncipe Pío) → El Escorial · Spain
Tren de Felipe II in pictures
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- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- ALSA
- Train
- ALCO 2100 diesel + 1940s coaches
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2017
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
An ALCO diesel and 1940s coaches staffed by costumed actors climb from Príncipe Pío into the Guadarrama foothills to Philip II’s colossal monastery-palace.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 13489217 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 92.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 5 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IR 18901
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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