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Article: A cascade of journey time reductions: the Transport Infrastructure Plan drawn up by Spain's Development Ministry envisages the construction of no fewer than 7000km of high-speed rail lines. The first of these, linking Madrid with Seville, opened in 1992, followed in October 2003 by the initial section of the 855km Madrid--Barcelona--French border line.(High-Speed)
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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HIGH-SPEED rail services now connect the 481.6km between Madrid, Zaragoza and Lerida. As far as the rest of the line to Barcelona and the French border is concerned, work is either underway or adjudicated on a further 237km, leaving the remaining 137km in the project or study phase. Electrification contracts for the Lerida-Barcelona section have already been placed.
GIF, the high-speed infrastructure authority, recently awarded a 625 million [euro] contract to a consortium led by Siemens and including Alcatel and Westinghouse Signalling, for signalling, telecommunications, and power supply for the Lerida-Barcelona section, plus two other sections of new line: ...