This new section of 86.5 kilometers in length reduces the travel time from Madrid to just over an hour and a half.King Felipe VI, together with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and that of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, inaugurated the Burgos high-speed line this Thursday, thirteen years after the start of the works and after the various delays that the project has had to face.The AVE, a model 112 train, left the Madrid-Chanmartín station at 11:00 and, after a stop in Valladolid, arrived at the Rosa Manzano station in Burgos at 12:35.The connection with the capital of Burgos is made through an 86.5-kilometre-long route, which has the most advanced signaling technology, after an investment of 759 million euros.The AVE service will reduce travel times between Burgos and Madrid, to just over an hour and a half, as well as with Valladolid through the stop included in the itinerary, and increase reliability on routes to the north of Spain.The High-Speed ​​line starts from the existing railway junction at Venta de Baños, within the North-Northeast Corridor, which connects the Valladolid-Palencia-León and Venta de Baños-Burgos-Vitoria-France axes.The route, along which the Burgos-Madrid route will take one hour and 33 minutes, includes two tunnels and twelve viaducts, one of which, the longest, crosses the Pisuerga River and the A-62 motorway.One of the anecdotes of the construction of this new high-speed branch line has been the discovery, on the Estepar-Variante Ferroviaria de Burgos section, of the Roman villa of Molino de Arriba, which forms part of the archaeological site at this site, and whose exact location was unknown to date.With the commissioning of the Burgos line, the High Speed ​​rail network increases its route in the national territory, where it is expected to exceed 4,000 kilometers in length before the end of the year.This will be possible thanks to an investment in the execution of works in which Adif is working in excess of 11,700 million euros, in which a significant contribution is expected from the Recovery, Regeneration and Resilience Funds of the European Union.In the future, the High Speed ​​will have a connection with the Basque Country from the capital of Burgos through what is known as 'Y vasca', the wording of which has recently been approved by the Council of Ministers.It is a branch that will run along a 101.3-kilometre-long route, stopping at Miranda de Ebro, which will involve an investment of close to 1,492 million euros, which will allow the arrival of the AVE to the Basque Country.© HERALDO DE ARAGON EDITORA, SLU Telephone 976 765 000 / - Pº.Independencia, 29, 50001 Zaragoza - CIF: B99288763 - Registered in the Mercantile Registry of Zaragoza in Volume 3796, Book 0, Folio 177, Section 8, Sheet Z-50564 Any reproduction without written permission from the company is prohibited for the purposes of the article 32.1, second paragraph, of the Intellectual Property Law