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Map of current railway infrastructure in Portugal. The Northern Line was modernised to allow trains to run at 220 km/h between Lisbon-Alverca, Vila Franca de Xira–Santarém, Pombal–Alfarelos and Mealhada–Espinho, and to allow full use of the tilting to achieve speeds between 140–180 km/h in the remaining intermediate sections. Work is ...
Trenhotel was a long distance, overnight train service which used Talgo tilting trains [1] and sleeping cars developed by the Spanish rail network operator Renfe.It was operated by Renfe within Spain, and by its subsidiary Elipsos across France, Switzerland and Italy.
The Sud Express (also called Surexpreso [3] Spanish: [suɾeɣsˈpɾeso] and Sud Expresso [4] Portuguese: [suðɨʃˈpɾesu]) was an overnight passenger train connecting Paris with Lisbon and Madrid, and which originally was operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and ran north of Paris to Calais.
The extension to Portugal, the Lisbon–Madrid high-speed rail line, forms part of the Trans-European high-speed rail network, which in turn is one of a number of the European Union's Trans-European transport networks (TEN-T). It was defined by the Council Directive 96/48/EC of 23 July 1996. [10]
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The AVLO services are operated by rebuilt and repainted class 112 trains. Here a test train in March 2021 near Alt Penedès (Catalonia) Based on the popularity of the French low-cost high-speed rail service Ouigo that was introduced in 2013 by French national rail company SNCF, and keen to encourage train travel on the Spanish high-speed rail network, Renfe was interested in setting up their ...
The rail network will be able to connect Lisbon to Porto with speeds as high as 300km/h, and in a total travel time of 75 minutes without stops, and 105 minutes with stops. The new high-speed line will have stops in Leiria, Coimbra, Aveiro, Vila Nova de Gaia, apart from the already mentioned in Lisbon-Santa Apolónia and Porto-Campanhã.
Non-stop trains between Madrid and Valencia cover the 391 km (243 mi) in 1 hour and 40 minutes, saving two hours on the previous service of Alaris trains on the classic line. [ 4 ] The line is built to 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge , and electric powered at 25 kV AC, with signalling ERTMS levels 1 and 2.