The high-speed rail network in Spain will be the second fastest in the world, only behind China: the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, announced this Monday during a breakfast briefing of Europa Press important news regarding the AVE: it will run at 350 km/h, the first line to implement it will be the one linking Madrid and Barcelona and, in addition, a high-speed station will be built in Parla.
With this speed, the network’s trains will be faster than those of countries such as Japan, which run at 320 km/h: “We are going to go on the offensive in high speed […] At 350 km per hour, nobody goes except the Chinese”.
Currently, the Spanish network allows a maximum speed of 300 km/h (310 km/h in some sections), to which the minister pointed out that “it is important to take a step, we set ourselves the goal of 350 km/h and we will be the second country in the world after China”.
With this change, the Madrid-Barcelona route will be able to be made by AVE in less than two hours.
A high-speed train station in Parla
On the other hand, Puente has also announced the construction of a new high-speed station in the Madrid municipality of Parla: “It will serve as a relief for passing traffic, which will not have to reach Atocha or Chamartin, it will save time,” he said.
[News under construction]