SPAIN | High Speed Rail - Page 2

Cristovão471 · June 6th, 2007, 04:04 PM

Too cool.

Avatar · June 6th, 2007, 04:52 PM

I am jealous!

pflo777 · June 6th, 2007, 05:04 PM

could someone post a map---maybe a fast google earht based sketch, where the line would run?

Stifler · June 6th, 2007, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pflo777

could someone post a map---maybe a fast google earht based sketch, where the line would run?

It's too early to have a route as they have just showed their intentions. Anyway, these would be the lines which appear ub the article.

1- Campamento - Barajas Airport
2- Chamartin - Torrejon - Alcala de Henares

A more general map of Madrid metropolitan area

I am surprised with that, and I still don't think it's likely to be built. But when you talk about Madrid... I also thought Metro expansion planned was impossible and they showed I was wrong.

cinosanap · June 17th, 2007, 09:29 PM

There are talks of a Glasgow-Edinburgh maglev as well.

Very nice way to travel I've heard.

SimFox · June 20th, 2007, 04:33 PM

to build MagLev for a 5min ride? are they kidding?? What sort of acceleration/speed are they talking! the train would have to be tottaly cleaned and deodorized after each run!

***MasonicStage™*** · June 20th, 2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SimFox

to build MagLev for a 5min ride? are they kidding?? What sort of acceleration/speed are they talking! the train would have to be tottaly cleaned and deodorized after each run!

lol

TohrAlkimista · June 20th, 2007, 04:47 PM

MagLev in Madrid?

yeah, of course...the same possibilities of the invasion of Aliens...

frozen · June 20th, 2007, 09:21 PM

pero qué envidiosa es la gente

***skytrax*** · June 21st, 2007, 05:35 PM

wow!!!

TohrAlkimista · June 21st, 2007, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by frozen

pero qué envidiosa es la gente

aridaje

josema_call · June 22nd, 2007, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by TohrAlkimista

MagLev in Madrid?

yeah, of course...the same possibilities of the invasion of Aliens...

Drugs don't make anything for your health, stop taking them

Skylandman · June 23rd, 2007, 04:22 PM

Guys don´t be cruel and understand him, in some countries, to make something new when it´s about infrastructures, takes decades... if it´s ever done, so from their own experience in their home-countries they may be a bit sceptics. It´s normal.

Skylandman · June 23rd, 2007, 04:23 PM

double post

Dreamliner · June 23rd, 2007, 06:55 PM

With all the mayor construction proyects I've seen going on in Spain, I'm not surprised that a Maglev is being considered. I'm not too sure on wether it's practical for the routes they are planning though. Anyway...Que Viva Espana!!!

***hkskyline*** · August 7th, 2007, 10:19 AM

Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail link to open in December: PM

BARCELONA, Spain, Aug 2, 2007 (AFP) - A high-speed rail link between Madrid and Barcelona, Spain's second-largest city, will open on December 21, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Thursday.

"The works are developing at a good rhythm," he told reporters during a visit to Barcelona.

The high-speed line already connects the Spanish capital to Camp de Tarragona with crews now working to complete the last leg of the line to Barcelona in northeastern Spain.

The opening of the final leg will cut journey times from Madrid to Barcelona from just over four hours to 2.5 hours.

There are over 900 flights a week between Madrid and Barcelona, making it the busiest air route in the world according to global travel and transport information company OAG.

The opening of the high speed rail link between the two cities is expected to cut air traffic on the route.

A high-speed rail link has operated since April 1992 between Madrid and Seville in southwestern Spain.

Rebasepoiss · August 7th, 2007, 06:35 PM

So the train will be going 350km/h? If so, it's pretty damn fast...

Bitxofo · August 8th, 2007, 05:57 PM

That is the top speed the train can reach.

Reivajar · August 8th, 2007, 06:16 PM

Really, the objectif has always been link Madrid and Barcelona in 2 hours 30 minutes. It can be get with slower speed, and probably top speed will be used only to avoid delays -I think it happens also in Mediterranean HSL in France with the top speed of 320 kph-.

xote · August 8th, 2007, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Bitxofo

All young people (under 36y.o.) speak English in BCN or Madrid.

This is NOT true !

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