AVE

This article is about the high-speed rail service. For the Roman salutation, see Ave. For other uses, see AVE (disambiguation).
AVE
Main station(s)Madrid Atocha, Barcelona Sants, Seville-Santa Justa, Zaragoza–Delicias
Other station(s)Madrid Chamartín, Valencia-Joaquín Sorolla, Málaga-María Zambrano, Granada, Alicante Terminal, Valladolid-Campo Grande, A Coruña-San Cristóbal, Santiago de Compostela railway station, Ourense, Córdoba
Fleet size22 S-100[1]
16 S-102[2]
26 S-103[3]
20 S-106[4]
25 S-112[5]
Stations called at52
Parent companyRenfe
Technical
Track gaugeStandard (1435 mm)
Electrification25 kV AC (some sections on 3 kV DC network)
Length3,966 km (2,464 mi)[6]
Other
Websitehttps://www.renfe.com

Alta Velocidad Española (AVE)[a] is a high-speed rail service operated by Renfe, the Spanish State railway company.

The first AVE service was inaugurated in 1992, with the introduction of the first Spanish high-speed railway connecting the cities of Madrid, Córdoba and Seville.

In addition to Renfe's use of the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias-managed rail infrastructure in Spain, Renfe offers two AVE services partially in France, connecting respectively Barcelona-Lyon and Madrid-Marseille.[7]

Alta Velocidad Española translates to "Spanish High Speed", but the initials are also a play on the word ave, meaning "bird". AVE trains operate at speeds of up to 300 km/h (186 mph).[8][9]

  1. ^ "S-100". Renfe. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  2. ^ "S-102/112". Renfe. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  3. ^ "S-103". Renfe. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Renfe pone en circulación los S-106 con un incremento de 14.400 plazas para los servicios Avlo que circulan entre Madrid, Aragón, Cataluña, Comunitat Valenciana y Murcia" (in Spanish). Renfe. 26 April 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Flota de trenes". Renfe. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Red de Alta Velocidad". ADIF. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Renfe empieza a operar en Francia con un AVE entre Barcelona y Lyon". rtve.es. 13 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Madrid — Barcelona at 310 km/h with ETCS Level 2". Railway Gazette International. London. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  9. ^ "Velocidades máximas de los trenes y de las líneas" (maximum speeds of the trains and of the lines), last updated on 10 December 2022, accessed on 7 May 2023.


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