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High Speed Rail in Spain - a statement from a foreign expert
time for a stop at an intermediate station should be reduced to 6 - 7 minutes. Than a train
with 3 intermediate stops leaves Madrid 5 minutes later than the express train and arrives
Barcelona 5 minutes before the next express train arrives at Barcelona. This scheduling
would provide an amount of 20 minutes for the three intermediate stops at Zaragoza, Lleida
and Camp de Tarragona. In this the stops at Zaragoza und Lleida can be scheduled with an
amount of 7 minutes due to a short longer distance of running compared with the nonstop train
on the main line.
3.10.12 Toledo - Madrid - Valencia
Table 9. Hourly AVE-Concept Toledo - Madrid - Valencia
Because all present Avant services shall be integrated in the service of the 300 km/h fast
EMU’s the idea was created, to combine the Valencia - Madrid service with the Madrid -
Toledo service. With a speed of 300 km/h in the 50 km long section Madrid - overtaking
station La Sagra a travel time Madrid - Toledo of 29 min can be calculated. For the
section Madrid - Valencia a travel time of 101 min is fixed according to the present
timetable.
But it should be checked, if this time could be to an amount of only 95 min. This travel
time he author experienced on his travel on 2016-04-21 with train AVE 5141
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