Scenic route
El Canfranero
Zaragoza → Canfranc · Spain
El Canfranero in pictures
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- Distance
- 180 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 48 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Renfe Media Distancia diesel railcar
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1928
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Reopened in June 2025 after two years of works, the line climbs to Europe’s grandest abandoned border station, shut since a 1970 bridge collapse.
How this line was checked
- The 134 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11800914 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 15640 (Zug-Nr. 15640)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in ES) ↗
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