Almeria Train Station

The entrance to Almeria
The entrance to Almeria's intermodal bus and train station. Demolished in 2024.

Almeria Train Station

Note: Due to the construction of the High Speed Train line from Murcia into Almeria the Estación Intermodal station was closed on the 5th March 2024 and trains will stop at Huercal-Viator station and a bus service will be provided to complete the journey. The works are expected to be completed in 2026.

Huércal-Viator has been fitted out with new passenger vestibule, toilets as well as its complementary areas. The eight daily Media Distancia Granada-Almería trains, four in each direction, and the two Intercity Madrid-Almería trains, one in each direction, will arrive and depart from Huércal-Viator station. Customers who need to purchase or change tickets, or request any service information, should go to Almería station as before. In a later phase of the integration work, it is planned that these passenger services and ticket sales will be moved to the historic station building.

Almeria Train Station

The new train station will be located within a new 4,800 m2 surface station is being built, which will also house a new bus terminal called an Estación Intermodal. (Intermodal station; meaning bus and train combined station). The original building opened in 2005 as the first of its type in Spain. It wwas closed and demolished in 2024.

It is actually located next to the 'old 1911 train station' a beautiful ornate brick listed building which is a tourist attraction.

A single track line run into the Almeria train station on the line Linares-Baeza-Almería. the line was electrified for the mineral trains in 1911 as far as the mines at El Marquesado, near Guadix. This was Spain's first electricfied railway.  The passenger trains continue to Guadix and beyond and are diesel powered. Although a terminus for passengers the station is configured as a through station. This is for freight to continue to the port of Almeria. The mines closed in 1996. The history of the railway line is recorded in the book "El Todo Train" and in English on the Faydon website.

 

Almeria Train Services

AVE
There is no AVE service to Almeria. A service is projected for 2026 and it will link to the AVE high speed train network through Murcia and join the network near Alicante. This line as part of the 'Corredor Mediterráneo de Alta Velocidad' connects Almeria with Murcia and the AVE line Madrid-Castilla La Mancha-Valenciana-Murcia. The intermediate stops will be Vera-Almanzora and Lorca.

Talgo
Talgo is the name of high-speed services (though not as fast as the AVE or Alvia or Altaria) which connects Almeria with the Spanish capital, Madrid. The trains are made up from a diesel RENFE locomotive pulling Talgo passenger carriages. Talgo Class IV, VI, VII.

Madrid - Almeria 
Time taken: 6hrs 30 mins
Freguency: 2 trains daily
Stops: Madrid-Chamartin, Madrid-Atocha-Cercanias, Alcazar de San Juan, Manzanares, Valdepeñas, Vilches, Linares-Baeza, Jodar-Ubeda, Cabra de Santo Cristo y Alicun, Moreda. Guadix, Finana, Gador, Huercal-Viator, Almeria.   (Bold indicates stations that all trains stop)

See not above - until 2026 all trains terminate at Huercal-Viator station and a bus services is provided to complete the journey to ALmeria old 1911 railway station.

Medium Distance
Almeria to Granada Four trains a day. From Granada passengers can connet tothe AVE / AVANT high speed train network to Seville, Malaga, Cordoba and Madrid.

Granada to Almeria
Time: 6hr 30 mins
Frequency: four trains daily
Granada, Iznalloz, Benalua, Guadix, Fiñana, Gergal, Gador.

See not above - until 2026 all trains terminate at Huercal-Viator station and a bus services is provided to complete the journey to ALmeria old 1911 railway station.

Tel: Adif Stations 912 432 343
Tel: Renfe Tickets & Trains 912 320 320

Location

PLAZA ESTACION FERROCARRIL, Almería, 04006 - Almería

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