Madrid–Málaga high-speed rail line
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The Madrid–Málaga high-speed rail line is a
History
The first high-speed rail line in Spain was opened in 1992 when
Line
The line is built to
Route
The stations along the line are Madrid Atocha railway station, Córdoba Central, Puente Genil-Herrera, Antequera-Santa Ana and Málaga María Zambrano. The 122 km (76 mi) high-speed line towards Granada starting at Antaquera was inaugurated in June 2019.
The line runs along a double track section in the few kilometres after Córdoba Central and later becomes quadruple track. Eventually, just outside a town called Los Mochos (a few kilometres east-north-east of Almodóvar del Río), the Seville and Málaga branches become separate.[4][citation needed] The line takes a different route to the existing slower single-track line, but starts to run parallel to it between the towns of Doñana and Santa Rosalia Maqueda,[5] running alongside it for the rest of the journey to Málaga-María Zambrano station.
The section between Córdoba and Málaga runs through precipitous terrain in the Sierra Nevada and several viaducts and tunnels were necessary to complete the connections, including the Guadalhorce viaduct (574 m (1,883 ft)), the Abdalajís Tunnel (the 3rd longest in Spain after the Guadarrama and Pajares tunnels at 8,970 m (29,430 ft) in the Cordillera Bética), the Arroyo de las Piedras viaduct (1,208 m (3,963 ft) long and 93.4 m (306 ft) high, making it the highest viaduct along the line), the Arroyo del Espinazo and Jévar viaducts (the longest viaduct along the line when the two are considered together) and the Álora, Espartal, Tevilla, Gibralmora and Cártama tunnels that exist in a long chain.[6] The precipitous terrain is one possible reason why the Córdoba–Seville section was opened in 1992, but the Córdoba–Málaga section wasn't opened until December 2007.[citation needed]
Services
The AVE service (using the
Direct
The AVANT services transport passengers directly from Seville to Málaga and vice versa, with intermediate stops at Puente Genil-Herrera and Antequera-Santa Ana stations between Córdoba and Málaga.
See also
- High-speed rail in Spain
- Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line
- Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line
- AVE Class 103
- AVE
- Córdoba, Spain
- Málaga
References
- ^ "El AVE Málaga-Madrid sigue al alza y supera ya los 2,5 millones de viajeros anuales". Malaga Hoy (in Spanish). 30 January 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Infraestructuras y Estaciones. Líneas de Alta Velocidad". Adif. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ^ "Descubrelaaltavelocidad.net". Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ^ Google Maps
- ^ Google Maps
- ^ The northern portal of the Álora Tunnel can be seen on Google Maps, as can the southern portal of the Cártama Tunnel here.
External links
- "AVE at the RENFE" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 December 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
- Los Aves de Renfe "acortan distancias" entre Málaga y Madrid on YouTube(in Spanish)
- AVE High Speed Train Malaga To Madrid on YouTube