Lisbon – Madrid high-speed line

Lisbon – Madrid
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV  ~
Top speed:	350 km / h
Legend planned tunnel to Madrid Chamartín train station and to the high-speed line Madrid – Valladolid Madrid-Atocha SFS to Barcelona SFS to Valencia SFS to Seville Talavera de la Reina Navalmoral de la Mata Plasencia-Fuentidueñas Tagus Cáceres Merida Spain / Portugal Elvas / Badajoz SFS from / to Faro-Huelva-Sevilla Évora Linha de Évora to Casa Branca (Escoural) Connection from / to Linha do Alentejo / Linha do Sul to Pinhal Novo Lisbon-Alcochete Airport Connection from the Linha do Alentejo from Pinhal Novo / Vendas Novas Lavradio (crossing of the Linha do Alentejo ) Terceira Travessia do Tejo to Lisbon Oriente and to the Lisbon – Porto high-speed line

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The high-speed railway Lisbon-Madrid should the capitals of the two Iberian countries from 2013 standard gauge connect. However, the project for the construction of the 204 km long Portuguese section of the line was suspended in March 2012 until further notice, while the 437 km long Spanish section is still under construction or in the planning stage, but without a specific completion date.

It is one of five planned high-speed lines in Portugal, with four crossing the border between Spain and Portugal, which should start operating between 2013 and 2015. Together with the other four, the high-speed railway Lisbon-Oporto , the high-speed line Évora-Faro-Huelva , the high-speed line Aveiro Madrid and the high-speed line Vigo-Porto and with those already on the Spanish side high-speed lines Madrid-Seville , Madrid-Barcelona , Madrid- Valladolid and Madrid – Levante are to be given a new boost to rail traffic on the Iberian Peninsula. With the planning in standard gauge instead of Iberian broad gauge , the connection with the rest of Europe by rail should also be simplified. The trains should be able to complete the route between the two capitals in 2 hours and 45 minutes at a top speed of 350 km / h.

course

The route has a total length of 640 km, 437 km of it on Spanish and 203 km on Portuguese territory. It will find its starting point in Madrid in the Atocha train station and its end point in Lisbon's Gare do Oriente . South of Lisbon, the new major airport Lisbon-Alcochete (NAL) is being developed via a branch line. The planned route leaves Madrid together with the high-speed line Madrid – Seville southwards, but then turns in a south-westerly direction towards Mérida , which is to be reached via a branch line. Then the line should lead to the Spanish-Portuguese border, where a stop (Elvas / Badajoz) is planned in Badajoz . It then leads through the Alentejo to reach the Évora train station , where the Évora-Faro-Huelva high-speed line from the Algarve and south-west Spain joins. The route planning then provides for a route over Moita, before the route merges into the Terceira Travessia do Tejo at Lavradio and then reaches the Gare do Oriente from the south. The Lisbon airport in Alcochete will be connected via a branch line on the one hand to the high-speed line Lisbon-Madrid and on the other hand to the Linha do Alentejo / Linha do Sul near Pinhal Novo .

Construction progress

Spain

In 2008 the first construction lots for the Badajoz area were awarded to various consortia. On the 204 km between Talayuela and Badajoz in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura , which are already managed by the ADIF , around 100 km were under construction in September 2012 and a further 36.2 km between Mérida , Montijo and Badajoz had been completed.

Portugal

Construction should begin in 2010, and the first trains between Lisbon and Madrid should start running in 2013. Construction work on the Poceirão – Caia section was due to begin in 2011 after several delays. Although the Ministry of Transport was considering abandoning the route because of the financial problems, this would have resulted in high contractual penalties due to the construction contracts already in place. Due to the financial crisis in Portugal , the construction of the third Tejob bridge was initially not carried out; the trains from Poceirão are to continue on the usual route to Lisbon until further notice. Around 1.5 billion euros are calculated for the construction. On July 29, 2011, the incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho stopped the project because of the financial crisis . On April 5, 2012, the building contract for the border – Poceirão section was declared null and void by the Portuguese central court and the government declared the project of a high-speed line from Madrid to Lisbon as well as the high-speed line Lisbon-Porto to be closed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ High speed programs axed
2. ↑ Línea de alta velocidad Madrid-Extremadura-Frontera Portuguesa
3. ^ El AVE a ninguna parte. In: El País . March 26, 2012, Retrieved September 19, 2012 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Trayecto del tren de alta velocidad AVE Madrid-Extremadura-Portugal. In: extremaduramente.com. July 29, 2009, Retrieved September 19, 2012 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ Adif aborda la fase final de la Excavación del túnel de Santa Marina (Cáceres). In: ADIF . September 11, 2012, Retrieved September 19, 2012 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Site of the RAVE project on construction planning 
7. ↑ Luisa Pinto: Financiamento rodoviário vai ser revisto e TGV, apesar de reavaliado, mantém-se para já , Público , November 16, 2010
8. ↑ Inês Sequeira: Governo deve aproveitar crise para fazer pausa no TGV, dizem os especialistas , Público , November 4, 2010
9. ↑ Arranque das obras marcado para Fevereiro / Março de 2011 , RTP, November 8, 2010
10. ↑ Frederico Pinheiro and Sofia Rainho: Passos acaba com TGV , Sol , July 31, 2011
11. ↑ Austerity measures: No high-speed trains for Portugal