Altaria (rail service)

Altaria is the brand name of a group of fast long-distance passenger railway services operated by Spanish national railway company Renfe Operadora and connecting Madrid to Algeciras, Alicante, Barcelona, Cádiz, Cartagena, Granada, Irún, Logroño, Murcia, Pamplona, and San Sebastián.^[1]

Altaria trains are composed of locomotive-hauled Talgo coaching stock equipped with gauge-changing technology which enables the carriages to run on both conventional Iberian broad-gauge (1668 mm) track and the narrower international standard-gauge (1435 mm) track which is used for the newer high-speed network in Spain. Altaria trains are currently able to achieve speeds of up to 200 km/h on the high-speed lines.

Not to be confused with the Pokémon of the same name.

Notes

^ Madrid - Barcelona Altarias have been replaced by AVE trains upon completion of the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line in early 2008.

High speed rail in Spain

Lines in service (map)	Madrid–Barcelona Madrid–Levante (Valencia) Madrid–Seville Córdoba–Málaga Madrid–Valladolid Madrid–Toledo Zaragoza–Huesca^(fr) Figueres–Perpignan

Lines under construction	Barcelona–Figueres Madrid–Santiago de Compostela^(es) Valladolid–León^(es) Basque Y Mediterranean rail corridor^(es) Seville–Cádiz^(es) Seville–Antequera–Granada^(es)

Planned lines	Madrid–Lisbon^(fr) Porto–Vigo

Rolling stock	S/100 S/102 S/103 (Siemens Velaro) S/112 S/114 S/120 , S/121 S/130 S/353 S/354 S/490

Services (map)	AVANT Alvia Altaria Alaris Arco