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Rare FEVE information (Bilbao - León)

  • June 18, 2025
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I don't think Renfe actually post long-distance (as opposed to Cercanias) Ancho Metrico timetables *anywhere* on their website, and I wasn't having much luck googling, so in the end I emailed them about the León-Bilbao line, and they sent me this.

Annoyingly I don't think it's viable for me to use this train for my own purposes (the 15 minute change at León from the daily train from Vigo/Ourense is way too tight), but hopefully anyone else wanting to can make use of this rare timetable.

Not sure if the permanent replacement bus between the city centre and the Universidad stop departs from the main station or the closed FEVE station, that's a question for the next person to investigate! Also consider finding out which of potentially 3 places in León it may be possible to acquire your free ticket to access the platforms…

If anyone else has any obscure FEVE timetables, tips or whatever, you're more than welcome to post below, or start a new thread if you like as I'm not sure I can change the title of this one.

June 18, 2025

These long-distance trains are actually available in the Renfe sales module, e.g.:

 

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  • June 18, 2025

These long-distance trains are actually available in the Renfe sales module, e.g.:

 


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  • Full steam ahead
  • June 18, 2025

Oh yes, so there are! But only westbound for some reason...


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  • June 18, 2025

Oh yes, so there are! But only westbound for some reason...

Indeed, but nothing from Renfe surprises me. These trains will probably appear again when Renfe can be bothered to fix it.


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  • Full steam ahead
  • June 18, 2025

What a mess. Still, good to know that at least in theory there is somewhere to find out this information, and you don't have to wait until you're standing in the station hall to see a laminated timetable stapled to a cork board. Thanks for pointing that out :-)

The fact the Leon station is "Feve-León" in your sales module appears to suggest its ticket counter may still be running and that this is probably where the last leg buses arrive and depart from, but who knows...


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  • June 18, 2025

The fact the Leon station is "Feve-León" in your sales module appears to suggest its ticket counter may still be running and that this is probably where the last leg buses arrive and depart from, but who knows...

That was the case indeed when I took that bus some years ago.