In Spain there is an extensive system of railways. The majority of these railways was historically operated by

FEVE Renfe Feve is a division of state-owned Spanish railway company Renfe Operadora. It operates most of Spain's of railway. This division of Renfe was previously a stand-alone company named FEVE (Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha,Law 11/1965 of 2 ...

, ( Ferrocarriles Españoles de Vía Estrecha, Spanish narrow-gauge railways). Created in 1965 FEVE started absorbing numerous private-owned narrow-gauge railways. From 1978 onwards, with the introduction of regionalisation devolution under the new Spanish constitution, FEVE began transferring responsibility for a number of its operations to the new regional governments. On 31 December 2012 the company disappeared due to the merger of the narrow-gauge network FEVE and the broad-gauge network RENFE. In 2023 transport officials in RENFE in Spain resigned when it was found that narrow-gauge passenger rolling-stock ordered in 2020 for the northern regions of Asturias and Cantabria would be too wide for the tunnels and were to be redesigned with delays of a year or two in delivery.

Northern Spain

In the north of the country, operated by RENFE and

EuskoTren Euskotren, formally known as Basque Railways ( eu, Eusko Trenbideak, es, Ferrocarriles Vascos), is a public railway company controlled by the Basque Government and officially established in 1982 to operate several narrow gauge railways inside ...

(Eusko Trenbideak, Basque Railways). At the centre of this system is a metre-gauge line which runs for along the entire length of Spain's north coast.

is the Basque regional government rail company. This company also owns several

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lines. The

Euskotren Tranbia Euskotren Tranbia is the brand under which the tramway networks in the cities of Vitoria-Gasteiz and Bilbao (both in the Basque Country, Spain) are run. The system in Bilbao started operations in 2002, and the one in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2008. It ...

in Bilbao is a tramway line. Metro Bilbao started in 1995 on

track and has a . The Renfe metre-gauge network in Northern Spain and EuskoTren form the longest narrow-gauge network in Europe.

Andalusia

* FC Granada a Sierra Nevada; gauge, , 1925-1974

Castile–La Mancha

* FC Valdepenas a Puertollano; gauge, , 1924-1963

Catalonia

Barcelona * FGC (Catalan regional government railways),

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Llobregat–Anoia line The Llobregat–Anoia Line ( ca, Línia Llobregat-Anoia) is an unconnected metre gauge railway line linking Barcelona with the Baix Llobregat, Bages and Anoia regions, in Catalonia, Spain. Its name refers to the fact that it follows the course o ...

* Funicular de Vallvidrera *

Funicular del Tibidabo The Tibidabo Funicular ( ca, Funicular del Tibidabo; es, Funicular del Tibidabo) is a funicular railway in the city of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. The line connects ''Plaça del Doctor Andreu'', the upper terminus of the ''Tramvia Blau'', wit ...

Gelida *

Funicular de Gelida The Gelida Funicular ( ca, Funicular de Gelida; es, Funicular de Gelida) is a funicular railway in the municipality of Gelida in Catalonia, Spain. The line connects Gelida station, on the RENFE (''Spanish National Railways''), with the centre o ...

Girona * FC de Flassa a Palamos, Gerona y Banolas; gauge, , 1892-1969 * FC de San Feliu de Guixois a Gerona; gauge, , 1887-1956 Montserrat *

Funicular de Sant Joan The Sant Joan Funicular ( ca, Funicular de Sant Joan; es, Funicular de San Juan) is a funicular railway at Montserrat, near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. The line connects the monastery, and the upper terminus of the Montserrat Rack Railway, ...

Funicular de la Santa Cova The Santa Cova Funicular ( ca, Funicular de la Santa Cova; es, Funicular de La Santa Cova) is a funicular railway at Montserrat, near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. The line descends from the monastery, and the upper terminus of the Montserra ...

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Cremallera de Montserrat The Montserrat Rack Railway ( ca, Cremallera de Montserrat, ) is a mountain railway line north-west of Barcelona in Catalonia. The line runs from Monistrol de Montserrat Monistrol de Montserrat () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of th ...

, a rack railway. Northern Catalonia * Cremallera de Núria, a rack railway. *

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, a gauge

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Valencian community

* FGV (Valencian regional government railways) around the city of Valencia, as well as along the Costa Blanca from

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 th ...

to Denia Castellón * FC de Onda al Grao de Castellon y Villareal-Puerto de Burriana; gauge, , 1888-1963

Madrid

* Ferrocaril Électrico del Guadarrama near Madrid, in the Sierra del Guadarrama, runs a metre gauge electric line through a short but extremely sinuous track from Cercedilla to Los Cotos. This is the only narrow gauge railway operated by RENFE rather than FEVE.

Majorca

* SFM (Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca); * FS (Ferrocarril de Sóller) operates a gauge electrified railway and connecting tramway, the Tranvía de Sóller. *

Palma Metro The Palma Metro ( ca, Metro de Palma, es, Metro de Palma []) is a Medium-capacity rail transport system, light metro system in Palma, Majorca, Spain. The initial line of the system, M1, is long and has nine stations. It was constructed between ...

;

Murcia

* Renfe operates the

Cartagena-Los Nietos Line The Cartagena-Los Nietos Line is a narrow-gauge railway in the Murcia Region of Spain, connecting the city of Cartagena, Spain, Cartagena with smaller satellite towns to its east. History The railway line was first developed in the late nineteent ...

; gauge

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