Riassunto su SSC: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost. ... count=1224 (copiato più sotto)
Fonte originale: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bziz-Qc ... FYTVE/edit (presentazione del ministero spagnolo)
La notizia più importante, persa nella lista di linee AV, riguarda invece la decisione di convertire varie linee principali allo scartamento normale o al doppio scartamento.
L'idea dell'intero piano sostanzialmente è quella di aprire a scartamento normale le tratte AV costruite (in parte provvisoriamente anche ai treni merci), collegandole fra loro convertendo le linee storiche a doppio scartamento. In pratica si potrà andare dalla Francia a Valladolid con treni a 1435 mm, alternando AV e linee a doppio scartamento. Se confermato è l'inizio della fine dell'isolamento ferroviario di Spagna e Portogallo, nonché l'eliminazione del principale ostacolo al trasporto merci nella Penisola Iberica.
L'avvio a questa conversione è stato dato dall'AV Barcellona-Francia, che pur avendo oggi (e per ancora un decennio almeno) un traffico merci bassissimo (oggi pari a non oltre 4 treni merci al giorno), è servita a creare pressioni da parte delle industrie, che ora spingono per essere raggiunte dallo scartamento normale. Se il piano va in porto, per il 2020 dovrebbe arrivare a Valladolid e Zaragoza via i Paesi Baschi, e a Valencia via Barcellona, per quanto i due tratti dovrebbero inizialmente rimanere scollegati.
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Railway plans revised.
HSL Galicia:
-HSL between Olmedo and Ourense will open in single-track, with long crossing points.
-new Ourense station to be revised.
-branch to Vigo goes ahead.
-cuts of cost of Medina del Campo, Puebla de Sanabria and Gudiña stations by revision of each project.
HSL Valladolid-Burgos-Vitoria:
-will open till Burgos normally as previewed.
-third rail between Burgos and Vitoria.
HSL Basque "Y":
-will open as previewed except for the new accesses to Bilbao and Vitoria.
-New Vitoria and San Sebastian-Astigarraga stations postponed.
-HSL between San Sebastian-Astigarraga and Irun postponed.
-Third rail connections to current Bilbao-Abando and Vitoria stations, and also between San Sebastian and Irun (3kV, so no TGV Paris-Bilbao).
Mediterranean Corridor (sector Valencia-Almeria):
-HSL Valencia-La Encina/Villena as previewed.
-third rail on classic line between Valencia and La Encina.
-reconstruction of the old classic line in Iberian gauge between La Encina and Xativa. in single track (room left for future double-tracking).
-HSL Monforte del Cid/Alicante-Murcia as previewed.
-gauge change of the classic line between Alicante and Albatera-Catral.
-Murcia new station postponed. Third rail instead.
-HSL Murcia-Cartagena project postponed. Third rail and electrification of classic line instead.
-HSL Murcia-Lorca goes ahead but without new Lorca station. Lorca.San Diego and Lorca-Sutullena stations will be upgraded. Not sure wether single or double track.
-HSL Lorca-Almeria is not mentioned (cancelled?).
Mediterranean Corridor (sector Valencia-Tarragona):
-third rail in the two tracks between Valencia and Sagunto.
-third rail in one track between Sagunto and Castellon.
-gauge change between Castellon and Tarragona, including the Tortosa branch.
-classic line Vandellos-Cambrils-Salou-Tarragona not mentioned (not sure about what will happen, there´s a project of expanding the commuter trains).
Ebro Corridor (sector Saragossa-Pamplona-Vitoria):
-third rail between Saragossa and Castejón
-new HSL Castejón-Pamplona built in single track, standard gauge.
-gauge change between Pamplona and Alsasua.
-third rail between Alsasua and Vitoria.
-new station at new location at Pamplona goes ahead, but the project is revised.
Antequera-Granada HSL:
-HSL will open only till Archidona, classic line with third rail instead.
-Granada new station postponed.
HSL Palencia-Leon-Asturias:
-HSL Venta de Baños-Palencia-Leon goes ahead as previewed.
-Valladolid, Venta de Baños, Palencia and Leon station projects postponed. Upgrades instead.
-no standard gauge for the Pajares tunnels OR third rail between Leon and La Robla and one of the two tubes in standard gauge and the other in Iberian gauge (classic line through Pajares Pass maintained in any case).
Atocha-Chamartín connection and new HSL Madrid-Torrejón de Velasco junction:
-the project goes ahead as previewed.
Madrid-Extremadura-Lisbon HSL (sector Madrid-Badajoz):
-Plasencia-Cáceres-Mérida-Badajoz HSL opens in single track, Iberian gauge and diesel.
-Plasencia, Cáceres, Mérida and Badajoz new station projects postponed.
-section between Madrid and Plasencia is not mentioned.
Seville-Cadiz classic line upgrade:
-goes ahead as previewed as previewed.
HSL projects not mentioned on the report (and postponed? cancelled?):
-Lorca-Almeria.
-Seville-Antequera.
-Madrid-Talavera-Plasencia.
-all the other HSLs drawn on any map and not started nor projected nor seriously talked about (Saragossa-Teruel-Valencia, Medina del Campo-Salamanca, Avila-Salamanca, Madrid-Avila, Palencia-Santander, Bilbao-Santander, Castejón-Logroño-Miranda, Coruña-Ferrol-Oviedo-Santander, Seville-Huelva, Madrid-Jaen, Leon-Ponferrada-Monforte-Lugo-Coruña...).