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Maximum commercial speeds

Avilés Gijón Santander Bilbao San Sebastián Irún
A Coruña Ferrol Oviedo Tolosa
Betanzos Mieres El Entrego Orduña Alsasua Canfranc
Portbou
Santiago Lugo León Miranda de Ebro Vitoria Pamplona Pobla de Segur Puigcerdá Figueres
Ponferrada Huesca
Lalín Astorga Sahagún Burgos Tudela Girona
Pontevedra Ourense Puebla Logroño
Vigo de Sanabria Palencia Castejón Lleida
A Gudiña Venta Soria Barcelona
de Baños Zaragoza Camp de Tarragona
Zamora Olmedo Calatayud Tarragona
Medina Segovia Segovia G.
Salamanca Teruel
Guadalajara
Ávila Madrid-Ch. Castellón
Madrid-Atocha Cuenca
Plasencia Sagunto
Toledo Alcázar de Sagunto
Valencia
de Alcántara San Juan Valencia
Cáceres
Ciudad Real Manzanares Xátiva
Mérida Puertollano Albacete Gandía
Gandía
Badajoz Almorchón Chinchilla Alcoy
Jerez de los Zafra Alicante
Caballeros
Córdoba Linares-Baeza Murcia
Cartagena
Jaén Maximum commercial speeds (km/h)
Sevilla Águilas
Puente Genil
Utrera 300 km/h
Huelva Antequera Granada
Málaga Almería 250-270 km/h
Cádiz Jerez Fuengirola 200 km/h
Conventional section upgraded for 200 km/h
Algeciras

mercial services, found that the new high speed line, Regarding the capacity of the line, the objec-
30% longer than the Madrid-Seville line, should have tive was also ambitious. It was specified that the new
a basic Madrid to Barcelona passenger service with line should be able to handle frequencies of twelve
a journey time of less than 2 hours and 30 minutes. trains an hour during peak times, with two traction
More specifically, the initial objective was 2 units developing 8 MW of power. All this was to be
hours and 20 minutes, a journey time similar to the achieved while guaranteeing levels of reliability and
time achieved at that time on the 471 km long Ma-
drid-Seville.
The Spanish railway industry bills
over 70% of its sales abroad.

years of Spanish high speed rail

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