Alicante Terminal ( ca-valencia, Alacant Terminal) is the central

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Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

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. 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 (

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s). The station is not related to the narrow gauge railway

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managed by FGV and part of the city's tram network. In 2013,

AVE ''Alta Velocidad Española'' (''AVE'') is a service of high-speed rail in Spain operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, at speeds of up to . As of December 2021, the Spanish high-speed rail network, on part of which the AVE s ...

(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.La estación provisional del AVE podría mantenerse diez años.
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History

The first train to

arrived from

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on 4 January 1858. It took almost 10 years to construct a railway from Madrid to Alicante, which was carried out by Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Madrid a Zaragoza y Alicante, a predecessor of RENFE. Passenger services began on 1 March 1858, but the official opening awaited the arrival of

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on 25 May 1858.150 Year Anniversary of Madrid-Alicante Railroad
Generalitat Valenciana The initial design of the stations along the

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-Alicante part of the railway was approved in 1853. Additional extensions to the projects were made in 1857. It was one of the largest terminals built in Spain in those years. Between 1967 and 1968 the original facade of the Alicante station was completely rebuilt. Aparcamiento (Metro de Madrid)

Italian traffic signs - strada riservata ai veicoli a motore

Services

*The station services Alicante and Murcia suburban areas with a frequency of 1 or 2 trains per hour on line C-1 and with eight trains per day on line C-3. The station is the origin for both lines and is located in tariff area 6 of the Cercanías Murcia/Alicante network. *The station is used by medium-distance RENFE trains such as Regional Express or Regional with services to

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

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, Cartagena,

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, Villarrobledo, and Ciudad Real as lines L-1 and L-2. *

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and

are the primary destinations of long-distance trains operated by Renfe. With the completion of high-speed railway (

), a trip from

now takes between 2h20 mins and 2h40 mins.

References

{{Reflist Railway stations in the Valencian Community

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1858 establishments in Spain Railway stations opened in 1858