Spain and Portugal — a network to the MMC standard.
9 corridors linking 20 cities, about 2,900 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 3,400 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 4 cross-border links and crossings. Madrid at the centre, with lines to Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and the north coast, and a sea crossing at the Strait of Gibraltar to Morocco.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Spain and Portugal network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
ES-3 Mediterranean: Madrid – Zaragoza – Barcelona – Girona
ES-4 Levante: Madrid – Valencia (Spain)
ES-5 North: Madrid – Valladolid – Burgos – San Sebastián – Irun
ES-6 Extremadura: Madrid – Badajoz
PT-1 Atlantic: Lisbon – Coimbra – Porto
PT-2 Lisbon–Madrid: Lisbon – Elvas
ES-7 Málaga: Antequera – Málaga
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Spain and Portugal.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Spain and Portugal: Make contact.
