Why the crashes won’t stop me from using Spanish trains
From our UK edition
I am sitting in the nose of a high-speed AVE train from Madrid to Barcelona and the speedometer shoots up at an alarming rate. First 50 kmh… 100... then 150. It feels like we are on a rollercoaster. Soon we are travelling along the tracks at 300kmh (186 mph), while the countryside whizzes past in a blur. The driver looks over at me and smiles. 'Pretty good, eh?’ He's right. This was the moment I fell in love with Spain’s bullet trains. From the 1990s onwards, these slick locomotives started to expand across Spain like a spider’s web. Now the country has the largest network in Europe – and the second largest in the world – stretching 3,900 km (2,460m) across this huge nation.
