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The Madrid–Valencia de Alcántara line is an Iberian-gauge railway in Spain owned by ADIF. It is one of the main legacy lines across Extremadura and the province of Toledo, serving cities such as Talavera de la Reina and Cáceres. Part of the stretch across the Madrid region (up until Humanes) is used by commuter service C-5.

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Madrid–Valencia de Alcántara railway
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Track gauge1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge
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№ 2 to Madrid Chamartín via Sol
to Móstoles-El Soto
0.0
Madrid Puerta de Atocha / Madrid Atocha Cercanias
Madrid Planetarium bifurcation
5.4
Madrid-Santa Catalina
 
AVE to Valencia (East Coast)
freight bypass to Vallecas
7.2
Villaverde Bajo
to Moncloa
via Doce de Octubre
10.1
Villaverde Alto
10.7
Zarzaquemada
13.2
Leganés
14.7
Parque Polvoranca
17.2
La Serna
18.8
Fuenlabrada
22.8
Humanes
Humanes Cercanías depôt
limit of 3kV DC electrification
28.7
Griñón
38.4
Illescas
49.7
Villaluenga-Yuncler
62.5
Bargas
71.8
Villamiel de Toledo
85.4
Torrijos
Santa Olalla–Carmena
103.4
Erustes
118.3
Montearagón
134.2
Talavera de la Reina
148.8
Calera-Chozas
169.2
Oropesa de Toledo
200.4
Navalmoral de la Mata
211.7
Casatejada
231.2
La Bazagona
251.6
Monfragüe
268.3
Plasencia
265.4
Mirabel
277.3
Casas de Millán
283.1
Cañaveral
Rerouted around
Alcántara Reservoir
296.9
Río Tajo
309.5
Casar de Cáceres
332.8
Cáceres
348.5
Arroyo-Malpartida
Aliseda
Herreruela
407.8
San Vicente de Alcántara
420.0
Valencia de Alcántara
Portugal–Spain border
to Lisbon (out of use)
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History and description

The line was conceived as a union of three different stretches commissioned to different companies: Madrid–Malpartida de Plasencia, Malpartida de Plasencia-Cáceres and Cáceres-Valencia de Alcántara and beyond (to the Portuguese border),[1]

The international connection between Spain and Portugal via Valencia de Alcántara was inaugurated on 8 October 1881.[2] The Lisbon-Madrid-Paris Sud Express began operation in 1887.[3]

Since August 2012, the connection with Portugal via Valencia de Alcántara has been severed, and the Trenhotel Lusitania [es] connecting Lisbon and Madrid began operating via the province of Salamanca instead.[4]

The railway is electrified from Madrid to Humanes.[5] The aforementioned double-track electrified stretch is integrated in Cercanías Madrid's service C-5.[6] Starting from the boundary of the municipality of Humanes, the railroad line continues without electrification on a single track.[6] The electrification from Plasencia to Humanes is also projected.[7]

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