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I’m definitely not an expert but it seems basically impossible that there will be a train tunnel between Spain and Morocco completed in the next 6 years, if they’re just starting to work out if it is feasible now. Not sure why Time Out and other places would report this without some incredulity – it seems to be lazy clickbait journalism.
Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 which is bigger than Heathrow Terminal 5 and included new taxi ways and runways as well as a new metro line extension was about 8 years from inception to completion and was built in 6 years. It was about half the price of heathrow Terminal 5 and it won the Stirling prize for architecture. 6 years seems fast by UK standards but they do things pretty efficiently in Spain. It’s a pretty tight timescale but less than 10 years is easily possible.