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For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarity

The 50-stop journey would take around 19 hours in total

Portugal is also planning a new airport near Lisbon to improve connections to the city.

Holders of Interrail and Eurail passes have long lamented the hoops they have to jump through to reserve seats on Spanish trains, but all that’s about to change.

The first trains run by the Spanish rail company Renfe have Thursday connected the French city of Lyon to Barcelona. Trains from Marseille to Madrid are due to run on 28 July. Renfe intends to take full advantage of the opening up of French rail operator SNCF to competition.

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

Spanish Secretary of State for Transport Isabel Pardo de Vera and Isaías Táboas, head of the state-owned railroad company Renfe, have resigned after Renfe ordered trains that would not fit into the nonstandard tunnels in the northern parts of the country the trains are to serve. The contractor selected to…

Dozens of new trains with incorrect designs were ordered for two Spanish regions

Head of state rail company, Renfe, also quits as anger rises over fact trains built in £227.5m contract are too wide