Granada - Spain High Speed - When?

[Envoy]

I understand that Granada in Spain is being connected to the high speed rail network. Does anyone know when the High Speed services will start from Granada to Malaga & Cordoba?

Is the high speed line now up & running between Malaga & Seville?

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

I understand that Granada in Spain is being connected to the high speed rail network. Does anyone know when the High Speed services will start from Granada to Malaga & Cordoba?
Is the high speed line now up & running between Malaga & Seville?

Seville-Malaga via Cordoba, yes. Several Avant services daily.
But the direct route to Antiquera replacing the meandering (but very interesting) classic single-track line is still only partly constructed.
Finished solum appears out of nowhere and equally suddenly ends with no construction onwards!
I think some of the project has been cancelled.

The Antiquera-Granada section might be faring better.
This is what Wiki thinks (in Spanish), although it seems out of date:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eje_ferroviario_transversal_de_Andalucía

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Antequera to Granada is currently closed for conversion to standard-gauge and is scheduled for re-opening in Jan 2016. It will use a mixture of the classic line and some of the new 'variantes'. The difficult section through Loja - San Francisco still follows the old route as the orginally planned long-tunnel was deemed unaffordable. Antequera to Sevilla has been abandoned for the moment, despite being at quite an advanced stage in places.
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[Envoy]

Many thanks for your responses.

I am surprised that they have abandoned (for the time being), the Antequera to Seville section as Google Earth shows quite a bit of the route has been created .

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Many thanks for your responses.
I am surprised that they have abandoned (for the time being), the Antequera to Seville section as Google Earth shows quite a bit of the route has been created .

Yes, some of it is very expensive piled viaduct, just standing isolated in the landscape!
The last few km of the new route into Bobadilla has been adopted by the classic line.
You leave a creaky and winding single track onto a newly-built wide straight route (with only one track laid) for a fast(er) sprint into Bobadilla.