That Wikiedia page is quite a revelation. Until know, I was in the
understanding that the Madrid-Seville trainsets were built to the Iberian gauge
by Alstom.
Alstom has had a checkered history. The last I heard, they were under
contract to design and build the next generation Alesa trainsets at a facility
in Schenectady, New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstom#Acquisition_by_General_Electric
>
>Well, maybe old lines, but not anymore: "Since the beginning of the
>1990s new high-speed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail>
>passenger lines in Spain have been built to the international standard
>gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in), to allow these lines to link to the
>European high-speed network.”
>
Chris
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