Chris - the high-speed network in Spain is already standard gauge.
However there is a connection to the legacy gauge on the extension to
Malaga - see http://www.vialibre-ffe.com/pdf/Track_gauge_changeover.pdf
The high-speed lines across Europe also have to manage different
voltages iirc from 750Vdc to 10000Vac, several different platform
heights, and of course in the UK they drive on the other side (hence
the crossover in the middle of the Channel Tunnel).
Clever technology.
Jez
(with slight tongue in cheek)
On 01/02/2013, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Well, FWIW, my Brussels-Schiphol Thalys ticket is ?65, first class.
>>
>> But yes, what you describe must be annoying. Here on the Iberian
>> peninsula
>> things are expanding, despite the crisis--very soon the Spanish AVE
>> network will be linked with the French TGV, et voila, travel to Paris in
>> a
>> civilised manner :-)
>>
>
> I can't wait to see how they do that with the two different track
> gauges (rail spacing). The AVE from Madrid to Seville was an interesting
> adaptation of the TGV. I take it that the interchange will be at Barcelona
> as it is for freight?
>
> Chris
>
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