nwales58
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Electrification in use Plasencia-Badajoz from 15/12/2023.
The Alvia (1/day still) is accelerated ... by four minutes.
The Alvia (1/day still) is accelerated ... by four minutes.
Yes! Whenever the 106s enter service, improving train availability, a local service between Plasencia and Badajoz will start, with 121 EMUs.Electrification in use Plasencia-Badajoz from 15/12/2023.
The Alvia (1/day still) is accelerated ... by four minutes.
I'm surprised that wasn't the case before, I thought that was part of the reason why Spain had built it's lines as standard gaugeThe EU has proposed an amendment that all Trans Europe Rail routes have to be standard gauge (see amendment 35, clause 38d)
Should mean any new high speed routes will be to standard gauge (not Iberian broad gauge), if they want European money to help build it
That's all very well but as both Portugal and Spain use Iberian gauge it would make sense in the meantime to utilise existing routes already serviceable and run on them bi-mode trains capable of running on electric or deisel power.The EU has proposed an amendment that all Trans Europe Rail routes have to be standard gauge (see amendment 35, clause 38d)
Should mean any new high speed routes will be to standard gauge (not Iberian broad gauge), if they want European money to help build it
Probably more a case of being led to expect absolute perfection and (unsurprisingly) not finding it. This former German resident (from the times when in the eyes of British visitors and journalists German railways could do no wrong) remembers that yes - it was good - but nowhere near as perfect as it was cracked up to be.Brits moaning about Swiss Railways - really?? Surely a case of the pot calling the plate black.
co operaton between CP and RENFE seems to be near to non-existant.That's all very well but as both Portugal and Spain use Iberian gauge it would make sense in the meantime to utilise existing routes already serviceable and run on them bi-mode trains capable of running on electric or deisel power.
Just as an aside, as freight still runs across the border on the Guarda route and I'm assuming also on the Badajoz route, why not use those types of freight loco to haul passenger services in the interim? Or is there no spirit of cooperation/appetite for this between CP and RENFE?
Back at the start of this thread last August @Giugiaro sums up the situation in post #5.That's all very well but as both Portugal and Spain use Iberian gauge it would make sense in the meantime to utilise existing routes already serviceable and run on them bi-mode trains capable of running on electric or deisel power.
Just as an aside, as freight still runs across the border on the Guarda route and I'm assuming also on the Badajoz route, why not use those types of freight loco to haul passenger services in the interim? Or is there no spirit of cooperation/appetite for this between CP and RENFE?
ven Italy can turn around a Freccia in under an hour at Milan
18 hours good enough? 6h Madrid-Algeciras 1515-2115. Set comes back the following day at 1510.How long does RENFE take then?