5 minute train transfer in Ourense

GuyA

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2023

• Sep 26, 2022

• #1

Looking for some advice…will be travelling from Santiago de Compostela to Leon shortly. I have two choices Alsa bus 6 hr or Renfre 4:30 hr which requires a transfer at Ourense.

My concern is the Ourense transfer is only 5 minutes…I welcome any feedback from any forum member who has done this…good or bad idea with respect to 5 minute transfer.

Thanks

Guy

 

peregrina2000

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• Sep 26, 2022

• #2

My guess is that they have timed this for the purpose of having a good connection. There will probably be many others doing the same transfer.

 

Steven Dwyer

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• Sep 27, 2022

• #3

Ourense is a small station with only two platforms. it shouldn’t be a problem to make the connection.

 

Corned Beef

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• Sep 27, 2022

• #4

If you want to know anything about a rail station, use the ADIF website. Link to Ourense

22100 Ourense - Adif

www.adif.es

Click on Plano de la estación

 

MikeC

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Starting Camino Ingles June 2018

• Sep 27, 2022

• #5

GuyA said:

Looking for some advice…will be travelling from Santiago de Compostela to Leon shortly. I have two choices Alsa bus 6 hr or Renfre 4:30 hr which requires a transfer at Ourense.

My concern is the Ourense transfer is only 5 minutes…I welcome any feedback from any forum member who has done this…good or bad idea with respect to 5 minute transfer.

Thanks

Guy

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We did such a transfer some years ago on our way to Santiago. The trains came in on either side of an island platform and we just walked across and got on our new train. It was clearly planned that way.

 

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JimM

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• Sep 27, 2022

• #6

GuyA said:

Looking for some advice…will be travelling from Santiago de Compostela to Leon shortly. I have two choices Alsa bus 6 hr or Renfre 4:30 hr which requires a transfer at Ourense.

My concern is the Ourense transfer is only 5 minutes…I welcome any feedback from any forum member who has done this…good or bad idea with respect to 5 minute transfer.

Thanks

Guy

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I made the same trip a few years ago and it went without a problem. The train from Santiago pulled into Ourense and we stepped off and within a couple of minutes the train to Leon pulled in on the track beside the one we arrived on.
Buen Camino!

 

GuyA

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2023

• Sep 29, 2022

• #7

Thanks all…in the end a different solution. My walking friend was taking a 6:15 am train to Porto and we were sharing a room. Had trouble with Renfe website (don’t know why!) so went to Trainline and there was a 6:25 am train to Ourense. So wait in Santiago or Ourense for 2 hours (and not have 5 minute change). So opted for the latter.

On to Camino Salvador starting tomorrow. Camino Primitivo 12 day walk was superb!

Guy

 

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Charrito

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• Oct 3, 2022

• #8

When you arrive in Ourense (from whichever part of Spain) the fast train to Santiago is there waiting for you. Even if you get there a few minutes late the connecting train to Santiago will wait for you!