Scenic route
Zaragoza–València (via Teruel)
Zaragoza → Valencia · Spain
- Distance
- 355 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Renfe MD
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1901
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The emptiest main line in Spain: five hours via Teruel — a provincial capital with no direct Madrid train — through ochre gorges to the Mediterranean.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2604469 (312 km), relation 9846961 (83 km) — 358 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 13 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IR 18511
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in ES) ↗
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