High-speed route
AVE
Madrid → Barcelona · Spain
- Distance
- 621 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Top speed
- 310 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe · Ouigo · iryo
- Train
- S-103 Velaro E
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 2008
- Riders per year
- ≈ 9M
Scheduled at 310 km/h — Europe’s fastest timetable — this line flipped one of the world’s busiest air routes to rail.
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