Page 16 - Vía Libre Special - 25 Years of Spanish High Speed Rail

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Avilés Gijón Santander Bilbao San Sebastían Irún
A Coruña Ferrol Oviedo El Entrego Tolosa
Betanzos Mieres Orduña Alsasua Canfranc
Portbou
Santiago Lugo Vitoria Pamplona Puigcerdá Figueres
Pobla de Segur
Ponferrada Astorga León Miranda de Ebro Huesca
Burgos
Lalín Sahagún Tudela Gerona
Pontevedra Ourense Logroño
Monforte
Vigo Puebla de Sanabria Palencia Castejón Lérida
A Gudiña V. de Baños Soria Barcelona
Zaragoza
Camp de Tarragona
Zamora Olmedo Segovia G. Calatayud Tarragona
Medina Segovia
Salamanca
Guadalajara Teruel
Ávila Madrid-Ch. Castellón
Madrid-Atocha Cuenca
Plasencia
Sagunto
Toledo Sagunto
Valencia
de Alcantara Alcázar Valencia
Cáceres
Ciudad Real Manzanares Xátiva Network layout
Badajoz Mérida Puertollano Albacete Gandía
Gandía
Almorchón Chinchilla Villena Alcoy High speed lines Category I (2016)
Jerez de los Alicante Single track Double track
Caballeros Zafra
Córdoba Linares-Baeza High speed line in Iberian
Murcia
gauge Category I (2016)
Sevilla Jaén Cartagena Double track
Puente Genil Águilas Conventional section upgraded
Huelva Granada
Utrera for 200 km/h Category II (2016)
Antequera Almería
Málaga Single track Double track
Jerez
Cádiz Fuengirola Conventional network (2016)
Algeciras Single track
the modernization of the rail traffic management the track maintenance cost per kilometre of the
system with the implementation of DaVinci system, high speed network had been cut by half despite
one of the most advanced systems in the world and the number of circulations having tripled, as a result
the industrial and intellectual property of Adif. of learning, experience, and improvements made to
Fifteen years after the network’s inauguration, management processes.

Madrid–Zaragoza–Barcelona–French

border line

On October 10, 2003 the Madrid–Zaragoza–Lleida Three years later, on December 19, 2006, the
high speed connection was inaugurated. Its initial second section of the Madrid–Barcelona line–French
length of 443 kilometres formed the first section of border was commissioned, comprising a further 108
the line between Madrid and Figueres , with a total kilometres between Lleida and Camp de Tarragona
length of 798,4 kilometres. and the Lleida bypass. Investment amounted to 1,613
With an investment of 4,500 million euros, in million euros.
addition to the Madrid–Puerta de Atocha terminal Fourteen months later, in February 2008, the
station, the Madrid–Zaragoza–Lleida section was 98 kilometre long Tarragona–Barcelona section
served by four more stations: Guadalajara–Yebes (new), entered into service, at an investment of 2,653
Calatayud (refurbished and expanded), Zaragoza– million. The high speed connection between the two
Delicias (new), and Lleida–Pirineus (refurbished). most densely populated urban areas in Spain was

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