Next month, Renfe recovers the direct AVE between Valencia-Seville, which makes it possible to establish and, in turn, recover the connection between Alicante and Seville via connection at Cuenca Fernando Zóbel station. The best travel time between Alicante and Seville of the current options is reduced by more than 30 minutes (including connection time in Madrid when having to change stations from Chamartín to Atocha). Tickets for these trains are available from today on the usual sales channels. At the moment there is no plan to fix a direct AVE from Alicante without transfers because there are not enough trains due to the delay of Talgo in the delivery of the trains purchased by the state company. The new connection allows the travel time to be reduced by one hour by avoiding going up to Madrid to make the transfer and continue Seville on a trip that lasts 6 hours and 30 minutes.
Renfe restores the next October 7 the AVE Valencia-Seville and schedules a new connection between Alicante and the Seville capital, with intermediate stops in Puertollano and Cordobathrough a connection at the Cuenca Fernando Zóbel station.
The total travel time between Alicante and Seville will be 5 hours 26 minutes, improving by more than 30 minutes the best time of the current options that force you to go through Chamartín and are similar to those that existed when the AVE stopped in Atocha and the transfer consisted only of changing the platform.
The departure from Alicante will be at 7:10 a.m. with arrival in Seville, after changing trains in Cuenca, at 1:10 p.m.. Departure from Seville will be at 6:15 p.m. with arrival in Alicante at 11:41 p.m. (daily except Saturdays)
The recovery of the Seville-València AVE contributes, according to Renfe, to promoting sustainable mobility on trips between the Valencian Community and Andalusia. The use of this relationship instead of the private vehicle, considering the supply of annual train seats, translates into a saving of 14,551 tons of CO2 per year, emissions equivalent to the CO2 absorbed by 145,119 holm oaks over 40 years.
The opening of the Atocha-Chamartín tunnel reduces the journey from Alicante to Galicia and Castilla y León by half an hour
The already complicated rail connection between Alicante and Andalusia has become a little more difficult this month and, above all, uncomfortable, since the lack of a direct link -València recovers it after the pandemic- is added to the fact that the possibility of transhipment at Puerta de Atocha. Until last week a simple change of platform for which the passengers needed, at most, about 15 minutes to catch the train in Atocha itself and complete the Seville trip in 5 hours and a half, thirty more minutes to Málagawhether you started from Alicante-Termino or from the María Zambrano station in Malaga.
All services include stops in Villena. Albacete, Cuenca and Cordoba. Regarding the connection with Zaragoza, Renfe offers a daily service: departure from Alicante at 2:45 p.m. and arrival in the capital tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. after passing through Chamartín, where it arrives at 5:20 p.m. The departure from Puerta de Atocha is at 7:05 p.m., almost two hours later.
Today, the shortest train journey with transfer between Alicante and Sevilledepending on the time chosen, is between 6 hours and 29 minutes and 6 hours and 43 minutes if the destination is the capital of the Costa del Sol. Renfe has programmed four daily services but having moved the stop from Atocha to Chamartín, the travel time is 90 minutes more from when you arrive at the north station in Madrid and move to the south station by metro or commuter train. Ten minutes of travel according to the company, but susceptible, on the other hand, to stretch due to possible incidents or the very mobility of the passengers. It is not the same to change the platform than having to go to take the metro from the AVE downstairs.
From Atocha to Chamartín and with the airport train in a drawer: another example of how little Alicante paints in Madrid
On the other hand, the trip can only be made during the morning due to the travel times themselves. Leaving Alicante at 3:50 p.m. (last possibility) you will arrive in Seville at 11:40 p.m., after almost eight of travel and, for example, leaving Malaga at 4:58 p.m., the AVE, after changing from Atocha to Chamartín, will enter Alicante at 11:41 p.m., since the high-speed corridor does not have night services.
Ehe Ministry of Transport has been studying since the end of 2021 the possibility that the province of Alicante is once again linked by train with Andalusia through Murcia, a communication that was cut almost 37 years ago. The Ministry has commissioned an informative study on a railway connection between Lorca (Murcia) and Guadix (Granada), to determine which path the line should follow, which would have both passenger and freight trafficand what stations might be on the route.
The duration of the study is two years. A new railway line between Lorca and Guadix, beyond joining Murcia with Granada, would make it possible to reconnect eastern Andalusia with the entire Valencian Community and Cataloniamore than three and a half decades after cutting that communication.
New wink from Adif to compensate for the transfer to Chamartín: direct AVE between Alicante and Barajas airport in 2024
December 31, 1984 was the last day that the province was directly linked by train with Granada. There were two different services to eastern Andalusia that stopped at stations such as Villena, Elda, Alicante, Elche and Orihuela: an express from Barcelona and a daytime service from Valencia. It should be said that it is not that they were fast, nor did they stand out for their comfort. The Valencia-Granada daytime service was made with the same type of railcars that currently cover the routes from Alicante to Murcia and from Valencia to Alcoy.
The opening of the tunnel that connects the stations Puerta de Atocha and Chamartín in Madrid, where the Alvia already circulate non-stop in the first, it has cut the train trip from Alicante by half an hour not only to Santander and Gijón, but has also left Castilla y León, specifically Segovia and Valladolid, to 4 hours and 30 minutes and 5 hours respectively by train journey. Renfe also offers the possibility of traveling by AVE, with a change in Chamartín between Alicante and Ourense, in 6 hours and 15 minutes thanks to the opening of new high-speed sections. The Alvia buses that connect directly with Segovia and Valladolid run twice a day between Alicante and the Castilian-Leonese capitals.
