Madrid to Barcelona NONSTOP on Spain’s FASTEST Train! 

Still plenty of work to do in commuter trains though :(

High speed trains? Yes, totally. The rest of trains (Regional, commuter, freight...)? Not even close, it's a huge mess.

​@@osasunaitordon't be dramatic. At least Cercanias, alvia and media distancia works quite well.

@@loloflores123 Alvia, mostly yes. Media Distancia around half the times. And the least I write about Cercanías the better, it's decent in some cities and absolutely third-world standard in others.

In Spain many catering services are absurd because all trains are high speed, and you reach your destination quickly.

​@@SG-no1hh Agree 👍 1. Eat something just before you board the train 2. Use the more than sufficient cafetería cart 3. Eat nothing & work up an appetite for when you hit Madrid 😋

Not so quick, if you don’t live in the largest 10 or so cities you can’t get anywhere by train, we have awful service, I’m talking 4 trains a day is called good service, with many rural stations on many important mainlines having 2 departures or fewer. Uk is plagued by delays and cancellations but often the next train comes 2 hours or even quicker, here we don’t have that luxury, not an actually quite underrated regional bus network

@@angelgames9351 The UK (and in reality mostly England) does have a deans network but that's because it's much smaller and far more dense than Spain so it's impossible to provide small places with frequent rail service. That said I think you're exaggerating as rail service is much better, under the circumstances, than what you claim and, unlike the UK, it's still expending with many new line and improved ones under constructions and others in advance planning. In the UK once you leave the central area things are not as you describe and they invest very little in improvements Spain has a bit larger network but since it's spread over a large area it serves less people but it is mostly electrified (which is not the case in the UK where only about a third of the network is electrified) and, as i said, getting better. At the end of this month Asturias will get a high speed connection, The Mediterranean is, slowly but constantly, nearing completion and the long awaited high speed connection to Basque country and Extremadura is also advancing. There are also improvements on the regular network, although I agree that there should be more. To sum it up, Spain has an excellent networks and, unlike the one in the UK, it's getting better every day and I don't know how old are you but 30 years ago, when the first high speed line opened, it was in a horrible state of a third country so it has a huge advancement that continues today.

True although, in fairness, the UK has a much greater population density, so constructing high speed lines is more difficult and, in general, train frequency to most stations is much better than France and Spain. In France the use of buses between rural stations rather than trains outside of peak travel hours is routine.

​@@angelgames9351if you aren't going to the few largest big cities in England you get nowhere. In addition, you pay an arm and leg. Congratulations to Princess Leonor to her juramento

​@@buzzukfiftythreeand how about Germany. It is slightly bigger than the remainder of the British Empire and with a bigger population, with similar density. Or Italy?

I totally agree

620!

@@casiopea-_- And in 2,3333 hours, since it only took 2:20h in the end. That is more than 265 km/h on average 😉

Well, it's a high speed train, in case you did not notice.

It's true that it's simpler to build through the unpopulated areas of central Spain than in a packed country like England, but you have to take into account that Spain has a very harsh terrain with lots of mountains and plateaus. This line goes from sea level in Barcelona to over 1000m of altitude between Calatayud and Guadalajara, which is the highest high speed section in Europe if I remember correctly. Such an infrastructure is not easy to design and build, with many sections needing to be built through viaducts and tunnels.

Renfe has just announced it's going to revamp the whole online booking system, let's hope they'll address issues like this one

Now it seems to be possible. Traveled from Madrid to Ronda with a connection (to an MD train from AVE) in Antequera Santa Ana (and then from Ronda to Málaga) last month on one ticket booked on RENFE’s website.

Having experienced Spanish trains first hand, only the other week I concur. You couldn't do a distance from London to Edinburgh in 3 hours, in Spain its a doddle.

Nop, it's only at high speed services that they scan your bag (that's actually the only thing, it's not really airport security level at all). Imagine having to pass controls every time you commute to work xd

He didn't like the chaotic boarding process at Puerta de Atocha and his vegetarian meal wasn't provided on the train - he got pork instead, and he couldn't eat it.

If it's a Talgo 250 (Serie 130), their interiors re getting refurbished right now so it will no longer feel dated ;)

Because = Made in Germany

LZB is only used in the first HSL Madrid-Sevilla. Rest of the lines use ERTMS, the standard european system.

​@@marw08And right now, all the Madrid Seville HSL LZB system are under refurbishing works of homologation with the rest of EMTRS network.

Yep, but that's actually the exception, most high speed Renfe trains are from Talgo, while regional and commuter trains are usually from CAF, with Alstom being also a close competitor due to its Spanish factory in Barcelona (and maybe other factories, I don't remember now).

@@pizzaipinya2442 Actually there's a lot of diversity, Talgo only has the Series 102/112 and 130/730 in service, 106 and 107 (both to be delivered), while Alstom built the Series 100, 104, and 114 and CAF the Series 120 and 121 (they're basically the same, used for different services and one has a restaurant car while the other doesn't)

Siemens Velaro E

Thank you so much for what has to be the most pointless piece of constructive criticism I have ever had the displeasure of reading - here's some for next time, try and be more specific instead of throwing out general rubbish in the comments just for the sake of a few likes. Good day sir