Cordoba - Julio Anguita (Cordoba)

Purpose built for the coming of the high speed lines in 1994, it can help to make sense of the main station in Cordoba, by thinking of it as rectangular placed above the railway tracks.

On it's:

• southern side, facing the city centre, is a wide corridor which houses most of the station facilities including its food /drink outlets,
• eastern side is a wide bridge across the tracks which gives the access to the trains when departing,
• northern side is a street which is where the taxi rank is located and the city's main bus station is on the other side of this street,
• western side is a smaller bridge which crosses the tracks.

The following train services typically travel from / to Cordoba - Julio Anguita:

• Madrid Atocha; up to 2 x AVE trains per hour
• Madrid Atocha; up to 5 x Ouigo trains per day
• Madrid Atocha; up to 6 x iryo trains per day
• Madrid Atocha; up to 3 x avlo trains per day
• Barcelona*; up to 3 x AVE trains per day + 2 x iryo trains per day + 1 x Ouigo train per day
• Malaga; up to 2 x trains per hour
• Sevilla; up to 3 x trains per hour
• Cadiz and Jerez de la Frontera; up to 10 x trains per day
• Granada; up to 7 x trains per day
• Jaen; up to 5 x trains per day
• Valencia: 1 x AVE train per day + 1 x Torre Oro train per day
• Albacete and Alcazar de San Juan; 1 x Torre Oro train per day
• Almeria; 1 x train per day
  *= the daily Torre Oro train also goes to Barcelona, but its journey time is more than five hours slower.

When travelling between Cordoba and both Malaga and Sevilla, there are Avant trains available which have a set price, so will cost the same whether booked online in advance, or last minute at the station.
Though if you'll want to buy tickets at the station, check the timings before heading to Cordoba - Julio Anguita; Look up the journey as though you will be booking online, because there can be gaps of more than two hours between Avant departures.

The vias / platforms at Cordoba - Julio Anguita station are below street level because the trains cross the city centre in a tunnel.
Hence the primary access to the trains is by using a sloping moving walkway - Though for those who can't manage standing on the steep slope, an alternative access is available by elevator / lift for those who require mobility assistance.

These walkways are at the eastern end of the station.

At the top of each set of walkways there are separate ticket gates for departures from the specific pair of vias / platforms that each walkway serves.
At Cordoba - Julio Anguita the number of the via / platform that a train will be leaving from will typically appear on the departure screens around 10 to 20 mins prior to departure.

When it appears on the screen you may have to initially join a queue that will form at the ticket gate, the gate may not open until around 5 to mins prior to departure.
Look out for the info posters by the gates which will indicate where to wait on the via / platform for boarding into the coach, which will house your reserved seats.

When stepping off a train, particularly if your seats are in front half of trains heading to Malaga or Sevilla, when waking along the via / platform, you will see an escalator.
These are located on each via / platform and they go up to a bridge, which is at the western end of the main station building.
At the northern end of this bridge is an exit which leads to the taxi rank and bus station; at its southern end are the corridor which houses the station facilities and has exits to the city centre.

However, all of the above can be also be accessed by a moving walkway, which leads up to the bridge at the eastern edge at of the station.

The escalators are the shortest route to the taxi rank and bus station, but the moving walkways go up towards the exits closest to the city centre.

There also elevators available, though they are at the far eastern end of the platforms, towards the rear of trains arriving from Madrid and by the front of trains arriving from Malaga and Sevilla.

The old town area is more than 0.5 km from the main rail station in Cordoba, so reaching it on foot takes around 10 to 20 minutes.
The route is to head out of the front corner of the station and head down to the wide boulevard named the Ave de la Republique Argentina, which has a garden running through the middle of it
The easiest access into the old town is to cross to the other side of the boulevard, turning to the right and looking out for the street named. C. Lope De Hoces, which leads to the Plaza de la Trinidad.

By bus to the old town area

The other side of the old town can be reached on bus line / route 3 - direction Fuensanta.
Though its stop at the rail station is a tad obscurely located on the other side of a busy road - When arriving by train if you take the escalator and follow the signs to the taxi rank, when you step out of the station turn to the left.

When travelling from the station, the closest stop on line / route 3 to the Mesquita Cathedral / Grand Mosque is named San Fernando - though it is a still a 7 to 10 min walk to the cathedral from here.

During the day the line / route 3 schedule has departures every 15 mins.

By bus from the old town area

The journey by bus is more straightforward in this direction - the line / route 3 (direction Albaida) departs from the stop named Purerta del Puente, which is located between the cathedral / mosque and the river.
On arrival at the station it stops by the taxi rank.