Almería railway station is the main railway station of the Spanish city of Almería, Andalusia.
Almería | |||||
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.jpg) New intermodal station building | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Almería, Andalusia, Spain | ||||
| Coordinates | 36°50′05″N 2°27′22″W / 36.83466°N 2.456159°W | ||||
| Owned by | Adif | ||||
| Operated by | Renfe | ||||
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| History | |||||
| Opened | 1893[1] | ||||
| Rebuilt | 2005 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2024 | 322,886[2] | ||||
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History
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Almería's railway station originally opened in 1893 as the terminus for the line to Madrid. In 2005, the railway and bus station were combined in a new location next to the old station building.
The number of passengers at the station decreased considerably in the 2000s; in 2000 the station was used by 240,344 passengers, but had decreased to 107,409 in 2017.[3] In the 2020s numbers increased considerably.[2]
Services
editAlmería is served by Media Distancia trains to Linares Baeza and Granada, along with Intercity services to Madrid Atocha which takes around six hours.[4]
Future
editAlmería is the future terminus of the Murcia–Almería high-speed rail line, which will link Almería to Madrid Atocha via Murcia del Carmen, Albacete-Los Llanos and Cuenca–Fernando Zóbel.
References
edit- ↑ "Finishing touches for Almeria station". Euro Weekly News. 2 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- 1 2 "Las grandes estaciones de tren de Andalucía registraron en 2024 un 23 por ciento más de viajeros que el año anterior" [Andalusia's main train stations registered a 23% growth in passenger numbers in 2024 compared to the previous year]. ABC (in Spanish). Seville. 15 February 2025. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
- ↑ "El tortuoso camino de los trenes de Almería". El País. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ↑ "Our train in Spain was very far from plain". The Times. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
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