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Lines, sections, and stations executed by FCC Construcción
Madrid-Barcelona-Gerona and French border line
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Sub-section II. Mejorada del Campo: 11.10 km.
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Sub-sections IX y X. Santa María de Huerta-Alhama
de Aragón: 26.10 km.
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1st Sub-section. Calatayud-Ricla: 8.80 km.
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Sub-section 1B. Calatayud-Ricla: 6.80 km.
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Sub-section XIV. Zaragoza: 22.20 km.
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Sub-section IVB. Montblanc: 5.30 km.
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Sub-section IXA. El Vendrell: 5.85 km.
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Hospitalet – Cantunis section: 2.10 km.
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Vilademuls-Pontós section: Girona: 5.66 km.
Malaga-Cordoba line
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Álora-Cártama section: 3.02 km.
Seville-Cadiz line
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Sub-section El Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz: 11 km.
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Airport-Jerez North section.
Madrid-Valladolid line
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Sub-section III. Navas de la Asunción - Coca: 9.06 km.
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Sub-section Segovia-Garcillán: 11.82 km.
Soto del Real-Segovia section
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Guadarrama Tunnel, lots 3 and 4: 28.20 km. The most im-
portant project in the north-south railway, connecting the
central plateau with the northern part of the Peninsula, un-
der the Guadarrama mountain range. It involves two parallel
tubes each measuring 28.40 kilometres in length, which
cross the Guadarrama mountain range. Two of the most
technically developed tunnel boring machines were used to
drill the tunnels under the mountains.
Valladolid-Asturias line
Stations
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Atocha (Madrid)
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Santa Justa (Seville)
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Delicias (Zaragoza)
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La Sagrera (Barcelona)
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Girona
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Vigo
by building two sections of the railway. In
1982, the company began work on the
Alcodea-Alamuz and Guadajoz-Majarique
section, and in 1982 started building the
Ciudad Real-Puertollano and Almodóvar-
Lora del Río sections.
Thanks to the success of this line, the Mi-
nistry of Public Works decided to embark
on an ambitious program aimed at creating
a railway network to connect Spanish cities
and, in turn, these cities with Madrid, as the
centre of the radial map, thereby develo-
ping a modern, high-speed railway system.
High-speed
railway
milestones
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1964 the Tokyo-Osaka line, the first
high-speed railway in Japan, starts
operations.
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1981 First TGV line in France: Pa-
ris-Lyon.
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1991. First high-speed lines in Ger-
many.
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1992. The AVE is born in Spain.
Connects Madrid and Seville.
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1994. The Euro Tunnel under the
English Channel opens for traffic.
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2008. China has more than 8,300
of high-speed lines in operations.
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2012. Spain, with more than 3,300
km of high-speed railway lines be-
comes the third ranking country in
the world to have this type of servi-
ce.
ln 1992, our
country became the fourth
in the world to have a
high-speed railway system.
Today, two decades later,
the Spanish AVE network is
a world reference