The Ministry of Public Works maintains the objective for the completion of the High Speed works to Extremadura by means of a new high speed platform between Plasencia and Badajoz in 2019, which, according to the report, will allow commissioning with “diesel traction” trains.
It also adds that the section will be electrified in 2020 to enable the circulation of electric traction trains. In order to “guarantee” the execution of this infrastructure, 1,015 million euros have been entered in the General State Budgets until 2020.
At the same time, after recalling that last Friday, August 25, the Official State Gazette published the tender for a new informative study of the Madrid-Oropesa section, has affected that this “milestone” responds to the “commitment” acquired in the past July 13 by the Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, in …
