Alicante railway station

Alacant Terminal
Two AVE Class 100 trains at the Alicante terminal.
General information
LocationAvenida de Salamanca, Alicante
Spain
Coordinates38°20′40″N 0°29′41.9″W / 38.34444°N 0.494972°W / 38.34444; -0.494972
Owned byadif
Line(s)Alaris, Altaria, Alvia, Euromed, Talgo
L-1, L-2 (Valencia, Cartagena, Ciudad Real)
C-1, C-3 (Murcia, San Vicente del Raspeig)
History
Opened1858
ElectrifiedYes
Passengers
20183,817,535[1]
Services
Preceding station Ouigo España Following station
Albacete-Los Llanos Madrid to Alicante Terminus

Alicante Terminal (Valencian: Alacant Terminal) is the central railway station of Alicante, Spain. Commonly referred locally as the RENFE station, the station is part of Adif system, and is a terminal station.

The station accommodates RENFE long-distance and medium-distance trains, and it is the origin of lines C-1 and C-3 of Cercanías Murcia/Alicante (suburban trains). The station is not related to the narrow gauge railway Alicante-Dénia managed by FGV and part of the city's tram network.

In 2013, AVE (high-speed) railway reached Alicante. While a new intermodal station is to be constructed in place of the current terminal, a temporal terminal is to be utilized by the high speed trains.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Adif - Información de estaciones - Alicante". ADIF. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  2. ^ La estación provisional del AVE podría mantenerse diez años., laverdad.es, 04.05.2010 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ El AVE a Alicante se retrasa hasta finales de 2013, elpais.es, 12.06.2012 (in Spanish)

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