3.5-hour high speed train between Bilbao and Valencia
05.11.2009
Starting in 2020, a high-speed train link will make it possible to go from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean, from Bilbao to Valencia, in three and a half hours.
The project is part of the Strategic Infrastructure Plan for 2005-2020, but the minister Jose' Blanco has said that the works with be announced before the end of the year. Media sources quote Blanco as saying that the works would be finished in line with the schedule, as he announced in meeting the leaders of the autonomous communities interested in the new high-speed train link in Zaragoza.
The train journey between Bilbao and Valencia currently takes 9 hours and 25 minutes. The new rail corridor will connect, with a high-speed line and mixed traffic, the Mediterranean corridor and that of the Bay of Biscay by way of Teruel, Zaragoza and the Ebro axis.
In the Basque Country, the connection will be built with two corridors, one for Logroo and the other for Pamplona, and will be lengthened from Bilbao to Santander.
Source: ANSAmed
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