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High Speed Rail in Spain - a statement from a foreign expert

3.10.14 Sevilla - Valencia

Table 11. Algeciras-Antequera Santa Ana Córdoba -Valencia - Barcelona

Table 11 shows in the upper part the situation for the travel time Algericas - Madrid.
Although passengers from Algericas bound for Madrid have to change trains in Antequera
Santa Ana the overall travel time Algericas - Madrid amounts to only 4 h 44 min, which is Ø
43 min shorter than the Ø travel time with trains Alta 9367 or Alta 9331. A same situation
applies for the reverse direction.

In the part below the proposed AVE service in the direction Sevilla - Valencia is shown by
the train numbers 3979 - 3993. This service doesn’t run via the capital Madrid. Therefore
there is no travel connection to be seen, in which many people want to travel. For
this service is assumed that passengers in many possible railway connections can use
this service, For example: the departure stations could lie in the area Cadiz - Sevilla,
Algericas- Antequera Santa Ana, Málaga and Granada and the destinations could be
Córdoba, Puertollano, Ciudad Real, Cuenca Fernando Zobel, Valencia, Castello de la Plana,
L’Aldea-Amposta, Tarragona, Barcelona, Albacete and Alacant. The blue underlined times
prove this concept exemplary. A passenger may in the morning travel from Ronda towards
Castello de la Plana. At present he must start at07.53 o’clock and he arrives at Castello
de la Plana at 16.30 o’clock. Given a regular service he could start at 08.00 o’clock and
arrive at Castello de la Plana at 13.38 o’clock. This is a travel time reduce of 179 min or
= - 34,6%. And this described travel possibility exists every two hours during the day from
08.00 o’clock until 16.00 o’clock.

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