Almería railway station

Almería railway station is the main railway station of the Spanish city of Almería, Andalusia.

Almería
New intermodal station building
General information
Location	Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Coordinates	36.83466°N 2.456159°W / 36.83466; -2.456159
Owned by	Adif
Operated by	Renfe
Line(s)	Linares Baeza–Almería railway Murcia–Almería high-speed rail line (future)
History
Opened	1893[1]
Rebuilt	2005
Passengers
2024	322,886[2]
Location

History

Old station building, now disused

Almería's railway station originally opened in 1893 as the terminus for the line to Madrid. In 2005, the railway and bus station were combined in a new location next to the old station building.

The number of passengers at the station decreased considerably in the 2000s; in 2000 the station was used by 240,344 passengers, but had decreased to 107,409 in 2017.^[3] In the 2020s numbers increased considerably.^[2]

Services

Almería is served by Media Distancia trains to Linares Baeza and Granada, along with Intercity services to Madrid Atocha which takes around six hours.^[4]

Future

Almería is the future terminus of the Murcia–Almería high-speed rail line, which will link Almería to Madrid Atocha via Murcia del Carmen, Albacete-Los Llanos and Cuenca–Fernando Zóbel.