Mérida-Los Rosales railway

The Mérida-Los Rosales railway is a Spanish railway line that connects the Extremaduran city of Mérida with Zafra and Los Rosales in Andalusia, a railway junction near to Seville.

Mérida-Los Rosales railway line
The line near Pedroso
Overview
Statusin use
OwnerADIF
LocaleExtremadura, Andalusia, Spain
TerminiMérida
Los Rosales
Stations16 open, 2 closed
Service
TypeHeavy rail
Operator(s)Renfe
History
Opened16 January 1885
Technical
Line length204.3 km (126.9 mi)
Number of tracks1
Track gaugeIberian
Electrificationno
Route map
from Cáceres
0.0
 Mérida
to Badajoz
6.5
 Calamonte
29.6
 Almendralejo
43.7
 Villafranca de los Barros
56.8
 Los Santos de Maimona
63.8
 Zafra Feria
65.2
 Zafra
86.7
 Usagre-Bienvenida
105.6
 Llerena
118.3
 Fuente del Arco
130.3
 Guadalcanal
143.3
 Alanís
155.3
 Cazalla-Constantina
171.7
 Pedroso
195.5
 Villanueva del Río Minas
199.2
 Alcolea del Río
202.1
 Tocina
towards Córdoba
204.7
 Los Rosales
to Seville-Santa Justa

History and Traffic

The concession for the line was given in 1869, and work progressed slowly over the next few years, culminating in 1885. There are a number of different services that use the line. Services that use the full line are Media Distancia and Regional Exprés services, mostly running from Cáceres to Sevilla Santa Justa. The Cercanías Sevilla line C-3 uses the line up to Cazalla-Constantina, and services along the Zafra-Huelva line, when continuing to Mérida, use the Mérida-Zafra section. A daily Seville-Cáceres service continues to Madrid Atocha.[1][2]

  • Cazalla-Constantina railway station.
  • An infrastructure train on the line.
  • The same infrastructure train, showing the landscape along the line.
  • Fuente del Arco railway station.
  • Guadalcanal railway station.
  • The line seen on a map of the railways of Spain.

References
  1. https://www.renfe.com/content/dam/renfe/es/Viajeros/Secciones/pdf/mapa_general_ServiocioPublico.pdf
  2. "Horarios, precios de trenes, Ave, Avlo, Alvia, Regionales | Renfe". www.renfe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-02-05.
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