The Chinchilla–Cartagena railway is an Iberian-gauge railway in

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

History

The line was completed between 1863 and 1863. In 2003, the Chinchilla train crash occurred on the line, where a passenger train and a freight train collided, killing 19 people and injuring 38.
Las mayores tragedias ferroviarias en los últimos años
�, '' El Mundo'' (July 24, 2013) In 2018, the Alvia 730 service began, enabling travel times between Cartagena to

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, via the line to Chinchilla, of three hours and thirty-two minutes.

Route

The line begins as a branch from the

Madrid–Valencia railway The Madrid–Valencia railway is the conventional railway line linking the Spanish capital Madrid with the country's third largest city of Valencia in the Valencian Community. It now primarily serves local commuter rail services and regional tr ...

at Chinchilla and passes through Murcia del Carmen to terminate in Cartagena. In 2019, 26 km of new, more direct track between Cieza and Agramón opened, shortening journey times by 20 minutes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chinchilla-Cartagena railway Railway lines in Spain Railway lines opened in 1863 Iberian-gauge railways