Update on the lockers in Cordoba: you are no longer permitted to store your luggage yourself. You must approach the guard at the kiosk who checks your ticket. He will put your bag in a locker and give you a slip with the locker number and a notation of the date and your estimated time of return. (Cost, 3 euros.) When you present your slip, the guard will get your bags.

Note: have the fellow at the kiosk get your luggage well before your train is due. I saw a couple of American students miss their train because they walked up to the kiosk at the last minute with their tickets and luggage slips during a peak hour. Their AVE took off without them, much to their disgust.

Hi---The luggage lockers at Atocha station are not available now? Does anyone know when they will be available, or what one could use in the meantime???

Kitt, there is no fixed date for the reopening of the lockers in Atocha. In the meantime, the nearest ones are at Estación Sur de Autobuses . From Atocha is just one stop away by commuter train.