Mérida-Los Rosales railway

The Mérida-Los Rosales railway is a Spanish railway line that connects the Extremaduran city of Mérida with Zafra and Los Rosales in Andalusia, a railway junction near to Seville.

Mérida-Los Rosales railway line
The line near Pedroso
Overview
Status	in use
Owner	ADIF
Locale	Extremadura, Andalusia, Spain
Termini	Mérida Los Rosales
Stations	16 open, 2 closed
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	Renfe
History
Opened	16 January 1885
Technical
Line length	204.3 km (126.9 mi)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	Iberian
Electrification	no
Route map from Cáceres to Badajoz Aljucén 0.0 Mérida to Puertollano 6.5 Calamonte 29.6 Almendralejo 43.7 Villafranca de los Barros 56.8 Los Santos de Maimona 63.8 Zafra Feria 65.2 Zafra to Huelva 86.7 Usagre-Bienvenida 105.6 Llerena 118.3 Fuente del Arco 130.3 Guadalcanal 143.3 Alanís 155.3 Cazalla-Constantina 171.7 Pedroso 195.5 Villanueva del Río Minas 199.2 Alcolea del Río 202.1 Tocina towards Córdoba 204.7 Los Rosales to Seville-Santa Justa

The railway line is 204.3km long, it is Iberian gauge (1668mm), non electrified and on a single track. It has been owned by many railway operators, currently it is owned by Adif and it is catalogued as line 516.

History and Traffic

The concession for the line was given in 1869, and work progressed slowly over the next few years, culminating in 1885. There are a number of different services that use the line. Services that use the full line are Media Distancia and Regional Exprés services, mostly running from Cáceres to Sevilla Santa Justa. The Cercanías Sevilla line C-3 uses the line up to Cazalla-Constantina, and services along the Zafra-Huelva line, when continuing to Mérida, use the Mérida-Zafra section. A daily Seville-Cáceres service continues to Madrid Atocha.

Gallery

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  Cazalla-Constantina railway station.
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  An infrastructure train on the line.
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  The same infrastructure train, showing the landscape along the line.
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  Fuente del Arco railway station.
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  Guadalcanal railway station.
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  The line seen on a map of the railways of Spain.