2023 / Morocco and Spain - Autumn 2023 / Alacant - Murcia Albacete

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Home / 2023 / Morocco and Spain - Autumn 2023 / Alacant - Murcia Albacete - 8 October 2023 18

Sunday 8th October 2023 A day out from Alacant. Time to cover Alacant tram routes 4 and 5 this morning, which share a unidirectional loop though the seaside village of Platja de Sant Joan, but with two different termini in Alacant: line 4 to Luceros, the main terminal, and line 5 to Porta del Mar nearer the old town. Then over to Murcia on the high speed line (and with time to spare to go out to Orihuela and back, for something to do) before the main aim of today - the broad gauge loco-hauled Sundays only Archena-Fortuna to Madrid InterCity train, which with its Fridays-only opposite working are the only passenger workings between Archena-Fortuna and Albacete. This requires a rail-replacement bus between Murcia and Archena-Fortuna. Presumably when the long-term Murcia engineering works are finished, trains will restart running through Archena-Fortuna to Murcia del Carmen. Back to Alacant from Albacete on the high speed line.
See trip report for the full itinerary, traction details and notes.