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

Madrid Puerta de Atocha The track occupation diagram for Madrid Puerta de Atocha proves
that a combing of services, in which Puerta de Atocha will become an intermediate station,
considerably reduces the need of platform tracks. And for this it must be mentioned that every
platform track in Madrid Puerta de Atocha is 450 m long with a double crossover in the middle.
So it should be possible to run four trains into two platform tracks in different sections. So in
the end in total 4 trains could stand opposite to each other thus providing a changing of trains
at the same platform in several directions.
It must be stressed that it is much more important to make possible the above designed track
occupation diagram in Madrid P.d.A. rather than provide 15 platform tracks in this station.

3.10.4 Rolling stock roster study for regular service concept

Figure 11. Principal overview about the rolling stock roster for the whole regular service concept

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