Alicante railway station
Alacant Terminal | |||||||||||
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Two AVE Class 100 trains at the Alicante terminal. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Avenida de Salamanca, Alicante Spain | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°20′40″N 0°29′41.9″W / 38.34444°N 0.494972°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | adif | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Alaris, Altaria, Alvia, Euromed, Talgo L-1, L-2 (Valencia, Cartagena, Ciudad Real) , (Murcia, San Vicente del Raspeig) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1858 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 3,817,535 | ||||||||||
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Alicante Terminal (Valencian: Alacant Terminal) is the central railway station of Alicante, Spain. 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 (suburban trains). The station is not related to the narrow gauge railway Alicante-Dénia managed by FGV and part of the city's tram network.
In 2013, AVE (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.