The sleek bullet train looked magnificent as it pulled away effortlessly from Madrid’s Atocha station on its way to the east coast city of Valencia - a journey of 240 miles it makes in just 98 minutes ...

The bad news is that if you don’t board the AVE, Spain’s high-speed train, two minutes before departure, the doors close and it will leave without you. Mildly irritating, too, is the electronic ...

Spain launches a direct high-speed AVE train between Barcelona and Seville, eliminating the Madrid transfer and cutting travel time to boost tourism and comfort. Travelling across Spain is about to ...

Spain’s Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) high-speed network service is now the longest rail network in Europe. Credit: Peter Selway / Schneider Electric. Over the past few decades, high-speed rail has ...

EARLY morning at Barcelona's railway station and the platform crowd looks smarter than it would have done a year ago. But these are not ordinary weekday commuters. They are besuited businessmen ...

ABOARD THE AVE — Carlos Martínez and his colleagues were enjoying soda and sandwiches in the bar, having chosen not to watch a film — “Appaloosa,” with Ed Harris — that was playing on overhead screens ...