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Grindlay, Alejandro Luis. Huertas-Fernández, Miguel. Molero-Melgarejo, F. Emilio.

Hab.) (in 2006) and between Antequera and Malaga (in 2007), connecting these cities
with the Madrid-Seville line, and reducing by more than an hour the time between
Cordoba and Malaga. This new HSR line changed the orientation of the passenger
services of the eastern cities of Granada (235,000 Hab.) and Jaen (114,700 Hab.) to
Madrid, which since then use a mixed HSR-conventional long distance service, instead
their conventional northern lines in their natural communication towards the nation
capital. However the underdevelopment situation of the Eastern Andalusia’s rail
network was maintained, without direct train services between the neighbouring
cities of Jaen and Granada, nor potential rail metropolitan services in this city
(García, 2012). Thus the line between Cordoba and Malaga could be considered
the limit between Western and Eastern Andalusia, since, as can be seen in the
Figure 3 showing the existing rail lines and their stations -most of them without
rail services-, there is a considerable gap in the current rail network development
between the two areas of the region.

Figure 3. Present rail lines and stations in Andalusia. Source: RENFE

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