The new Spanish AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) high-speed
rail service route to Barcelona was inaugurated in February 2008.
Initial teething
problems with the service on this stretch have been resolved in the meantime
and this route is now the most successful in all of Spain.
On June
4th, in commemoration of the grand-opening of this new route, the Spanish PIKO importer
Trenes-Aguilo, in cooperation with the model train club „Amics del tren de
Pineda de Mar“, presented the Spanish Prime Minister Mr. Rodrigues Zapatero
with a PIKO model of the high-speed AVE S-103 train.
The jubilant presentation of the model in Barcelona was also attended by Mr. Montilla,
the governor of the region of Catalonia.
Photo (left to right):Mr. Parunella and Mrs. Aguilo of
Trenes-Aguilo, Mr. Ferrer of „Amics del tren de Pineda de Mar“, Mr. Montilla
and Mr. Zapatero, as well as the mayor of Pineda de Mar, Mr. Amor.
Prime Minister Mr. Rodriguez
Zapatero signed a PIKO AVE model, which will occupy a place of
honor in a display case at the offices of Trenes-Aguilo.
Photos
courtesy of Mr. Albert Massuet of the Spanish model train club „Amics del tren
de Pineda de Mar“.
