'In 8 to 14 hours we could be in Amesterdam, Milan or Frankfurt by train'

The platform promoting public transport (PTP) has called on train operators in Catalonia to return night services that have disappeared over the past decade.

"In most cases, [high-speed rail lines] run very infrequently, except in the case of Barcelona-Madrid. We've lost a lot of services that were very useful, and we're calling for them to return," said PTP representative Adrià Ramírez.

"In less than four hours, we could be in Marseille, Toulouse, Montpellier, Cannes, Bilbao, or even in Madrid as we can do already. In between 8 and 14 hours we could be in Lisbon, Cádiz, Vigo, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Zurich, or Frankfurt."