Trains between Madrid and Lisbon
Replies: 7 - Last Post: Dec 4, 2012 2:56 PM Last Post By: getyoung
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Trains between Madrid and Lisbon
I'm looking for current info on direct trains between Madrid and Lisbon. I use bahn.de as my online rail planning tool. It usually works great, but at the moment, when I enter Madrid-Chamartin as my departure and Lisboa Oriente as my destination, the only trains it shows me are one daily trip requiring changes in Zaragoza and Burgos. I thought there was or still is a direct overnight train, but it's not showing up on the bahn.de site. I can find other sites that seem to suggest it does exist, but I can't tell if it's a "traditional" train run by Renfe and/or the Portuguese or if it's some private train.Any ideas?
Thx in advance, and pls don't flame me if I forget to check back here to look for replies for a few days! I have a terrible habit of doing that!
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Dec 9th = big annual timetable change across all of Europe. though most new timetables have been published by now, it may take another couple of weeks until bahn.de has fully implemented all of them in their database. maybe renfe.es or cp.pt already display the new schedules, otherwise check bahn.de again at a later stage.the number of nighttrains is dwindling, yet I severely doubt this nighttrain is among those that will be discontinued within the near future. ;-)
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They fused/joined the Lusitania (Madrid-Lisbon) with the Sud-Express (Hendaye-Lisbon) earlier this year so from Medina del Campo onwards they run as a single train. Therefore the Lusitania doesn't go through Cáceres as it went till some months ago but through Medina del Campo and Salamanca. The route was changed because the Portuguese closed to traffic part of the route in the Portuguese side. Despite the new route is (much) longer than the old one (in kms), it takes more or less the same time to go from Madrid to Lisbon.It should be running next June but with so many recent changes in trains in both Portugal and Spain, it's difficult to say for sure.
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Hey thanks! I thought about the timetable change over too, after studying some of the error msgs coming to me from bahn.de whenever I asked about trains next summer, when I'd be making this trip.I also appreciate very much the idea of flying for only 40 euros or so. I'm a train freak and will have a Eurailpass, so anything but trains would be extra, but time is money also, some folks say, so it's always a reasonable choice.
Thanks to all of you for your help!
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You should be able to find an overnight train between Lisboa and Madrid. I'd check flight too--you may found good deal.
