If you are someone who enjoys traveling by train, there is a Trans-Siberian Railway of sorts in Spain. It doesn’t take days, but it is equivalent to flying from Spain to Japan on a direct flight. The journey takes just under 14 hours without getting off the train and departs weekly from Barcelona.
This is the line that connects Barcelona with Vigo, a route operated by the Alvia 00622 that crosses the peninsula from east to west. Far from the three or four hours we are used to on journeys between Barcelona and Madrid or Valencia, this train requires patience: passengers will spend a total of 13 hours and 46 minutes inside the carriage.
The itinerary covers a distance of 907 kilometers. The journey for travelers begins early in the morning at Sants station (Barcelona) and ends late at night in Galicia.
Although it shares much of the route with the line to A Coruña, the change of track occurs in Ourense.
Once the train arrives in this city at 8:59 p.m., it turns west to tackle the final stretch of the journey, with strategic stops in Pontevedra: Guillarei, O Porriño, and Redondela before finally arriving at Vigo Guixar station at 10:51 p.m.
This train runs during the month of February, for example, on Fridays and Sundays from Barcelona at 9:05 a.m., the same schedule as the train from A Coruña, which runs daily and takes 13 hours and 19 minutes.