Scenic route
Tren dels Llacs
Lleida → La Pobla de Segur · Spain
Tren dels Llacs in pictures
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- Distance
- 89 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Top speed
- 90 km/h
- Operator
- FGC
- Train
- Vintage “yeyé” railcar + coaches
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2006
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A heritage “train of the lakes” climbing beside the Noguera Pallaresa past reservoirs and tunnels to the Pyrenean foothills.
How this line was checked
- The 89 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1956282 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of 17 (Zug-Nr. 17)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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