Heritage route
Tren de la Fresa
Madrid → Aranjuez · Spain
Tren de la Fresa in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 48 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 50 min
- Average speed
- 58 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles · Renfe
- Train
- Vintage 1900s-style carriages, diesel-hauled
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1851
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hostesses in 1920s dress hand out strawberries aboard replica carriages on Spain’s second-ever railway, opened in 1851.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 62936 — 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 5 m from it
- 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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