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If you\u2019re thinking of Euro railing then you may want to consider including Spain\u2019s excellent high speed rail network.<\/p>\n

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Spain's AVE rail network is World class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is it a coincidence that the acronym of Alta Velocidad Espanola is \u2018AVE\u2019, the Spanish word for ‘bird’? Or has the high-speed network Spain ambitiously aspires, been aptly titled to personify these trains as birds of prey, effortlessly soaring across the land from city to city, covering vast distances in no time at all? Almost unnoticed to the rest of the world, for the past two decades Spain has been locked in a frenzy of fervently constructing a burgeoning high-speed railway system.<\/p>\n

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Before the year is out Spain will overtake France and become European leaders in high-speed rail travel, possessing the world\u2019s third longest high-speed rail track.<\/p>\n

A six billion euro 2.230 km AVE high-speed line connecting Madrid to Valencia is due to open on December 18 2010 and will mean that only China, with a 3,000 kilometer line and Japan, with a 2,500 kilometer connection, will be ahead of Spain in AVE networks.<\/p>\n

Not only will the 2,000 kilometer track, which links two of Spain\u2019s most important cities, boost tourism and trade, but it will increase employment levels. According to a study by Accenture, it has been estimated that the Valencia-Madrid line will create 136,000 new jobs in the next five years. And in a country where unemployment lies at a staggeringly high 20 percent, projects like the new AVE network will offer relief to the thousands it will employ.<\/p>\n

Not only will the Valencia-Madrid line create thousands of new jobs, but by transporting 3.6 million passengers annually, who will be refraining from using cars or air transport, the AVE line will slash CO2 emissions by 842,000 tonnes by 2016.<\/p>\n

Spain is a nation with a reputation of being slightly \u2018backward\u2019 when it comes to arenas of technology. According to the Socialist government\u2019s Transport Minister Jose Blanco, Spain\u2019s sophisticated and enviable high-speed rail network will \u201cshatter clich\u00e9s\u201d associated with Spain being an unsophisticated nation living in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe development of the high-speed network will generate jobs and wealth, benefit the environment and reduce the number of road deaths,\u201d said Jose Blanco, before adding that AVE will be the \u201cemblem of the modernization of Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s ambitious high-speed railway transport plans to not stop at Valencia, as by 2012 Spain will be linked to the French to the French high-speed network, TGV, at Perpignan and will later link the Atlantic to Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

Long gone are the days when you could only get around Spain on a donkey down a dirt track!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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