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Matthew wrote on Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:26am:
I’m thinking out loud here (and to be honest I’ve had some senior moments) but I’m trying to remember drawing(s) in one of the free newspapers of the rail link. Since then Corvera airport has been completed. Corvera is quite a distance from Murcia city as was the “old” airport.
If the new rail link is not serving Alicante and Corvera airports it will prove as useless as a handbrake in a canoe to people arriving at those airports....
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I’ve learned on this forum that construction has started in the rail link station on the Garrucha side of Vera and there are quite extensive works being carried out along the line between Mojacar and Almeria which includes a long new bridge approaching Almeria city.
No doubt much of the works are being financed through EU funds so some plans must have been prepared. I’m not confident that the link will be of much benefit to those who hitherto had thought differently. I’ll keep an ear to new Holiday Homes in the Sun television series for more updates.
I remember that in a free paper as well. I thought it was being linked to Alicante airport at the time..... but as you say the goal posts have changed due to the new Murcia airport. The track which was laid years ago from Garrucha to Almeria is in an awful state..... bushes and small trees growing out of it which has broken it up, with some of the edges falling away! I am no engineer but it iseems only wide enough for 2 tracks .....someone said 4 tracks?? We cycle along it to up level to Nijar and then they have blocked the tunnel up. Tunnels it also said in the paper were paid for by Germany because they wanted the produce to get to them...(not the people please note!LOL)..... I like many are just going to wait and see.... so much could change before it is ever finished, like me in a box!
