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Spain's new high speed train connects Madrid and Barcelona

by Anna Brones (RSS feed) on Feb 20th 2008 at 4:00PM

Spain's high speed link between Madrid and Barcelona is finally open, after more than two decades of construction and administrative delay. Transporting passengers at 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour), and at a price of 180 euros round-trip, the train is expected to compete with air travel.

Madrid and Seville have been connected by high speed bullet train since 1992. Motivated by the addition of the new Madrid-Barcelona line, the Spanish government says that it will have more high speed train lines than anywhere else in the world by 2010, as reported by the BBC. France recently unveiled its latest contribution to the industry of high speed trains, meaning that we can probably look forward to an even better, and certainly faster, train-connected Europe.

[Thanks, Moody75!]

Filed under: Europe, Spain, Transportation, News

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Moody75 Feb 20th 2008 4:53PM

Hi Anna,
My pleasure! And thanks for bloging about it.
-Moody75

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