poshnbucks

Click on the Blue, Red, and green, To see its planned progress.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1240...%3Dinteractive




http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1240...Tabs%3Darticle

bigglesworth

Burning the midnight oil eh?

But the links don't work, I am afraid.

pete_l

The Bullet Train will soon be near YOU
I don't need to click on any links - I know it will never be anywhere near me. There isn't a station witnin 60km, so railways basically don't exist in this part of Spain.

snikpoh

The first link works fine for me but the second is no longer available

Mitzyboy

The second works for me, but not the first

valenciatim

Don't know how old the map is that is shown, but the Valencia bit isn't even shown as proposed, and it's not far off completion!

Nige

It looks as though it was designed in the past month. There are 3 maps. Present, Under Construction and Future. Very clear and well produced.
Perhaps you are looking at the wrong web page.
The future fast rail system is awesome. In case anyone missed it, this is the map produced by Wall Street journal:

valenciatim

Thank you for that, I couldn't see that one!

jdr

Both links work for me. ;-))

They put a new bridge in for it at Fuengirola a couple of years ago, but someone has built Banana Beach apartments in Marbella where the station was supposed to go. ;-((

Casa Santo Estevo

It is quite strange that the AVE line between Santiago and Ourense in Galicia is being built. But the section between Ourense and Madrid has not even finished the planning stages. The last incumbent of President de Galicia allowed a plan for slower trains to use the same lines as the AVE. The now president is going to reverse that description.
Some of the proposed lines are 10s of years or more away from being designed. They want to construct new lines here in Galicia through some beautiful countryside. The local environmental activists are rightly trying to stop this.

Carol&John

Thanks for the links, poshnbucks.
It ties in with proposals for this area of SW Spain, here:
http://www.ayamonte.org/modules/news...p?storyid=1118
I've read of further talks regarding the AVE from Seville to Lisbon (via the Andevalo?) It's not outlined in green as a future plan on the interactive map, however; there is controversy regarding the route, I believe.

Carol

poshnbucks

Here is some interesting copy. I would ask you to look at the reader comments you train spotters out there re really useful facts. Vol 23. When I was a young boy I did have a couple of train spotting books but after a short spotting life I would rule out train numbers in the books that I had never seen and then it dawned on me an honest train spotter I will never be and duly retired my books and ruler to the rubbish bin together with a really trendy anorak.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2708/69/

poshnbucks

A potted history.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/Biggles266/biggles.html

I have rather a large collection of Biggles books from my prep school days, I don't know if you have read any of them here's a list. my other biggles books are know to all.Well us and W.E.Johns anyway.

# Biggles Goes Down (1940)
# Biggles' Cockpit Capers (1941)
# Biggles Brings Up the Rear (1942)
# Biggles Keeps his Hand in (1943)
# Biggles Flies Undone (1944)
# Biggles and the Big Bomb (1946)
# Biggles Comes Through (1948)
# Biggles Comes Again (1949)
# Biggles Steps Up To The Crease (1950)
# Biggles Comes Once More (1951)
# Biggles Holds his Own (1952)
# Biggles Plows Ahead (1953)
# Biggles: Operation Teabag (1954)
# Biggles Combs His Hair (1955)
# Biggles Flies a Plane (1956)
# Biggles Ups The Ante (1957)
# Biggles Bites The Pillow (1958)
# Biggles Sinks the Bismark (1958)
# Biggles Comes a Cropper (1959)
# Biggles Gets his Man (1960)
# Biggles Forces an Issue (1961)
# Biggles Sticks to his Wingman (1962)
# Biggles Takes It Rough (1963)

Casa Santo Estevo

What no Biggles reads the Daily Mail?

Nige

Why is it that I get a whiff of Frankie Howard meets Michael Barrymore meets that bloke on telly Graham Norton when I read those titles?
Cockpit Capers - Brings Up the Rear - Keeps his Hand in - Flies Undone -Comes Again - Comes Once More -Gets his Man - Takes It Rough