Sunday’s train derailment in Madrid, which caused chaos on the Spanish rail network this weekend, was instigated, Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente has told journalists, on purpose by…
Passenger traffic in southern Spain will experience disturbances for most of 2025 due to infrastructure upgrades in the context of the Algeciras-Zaragoza freight highway development. The adaptation of…
Rail services to and from Madrid were completely upended this weekend after a Renfe train derailed and overturned while in a key high-speed tunnel in the Spanish capital.…
France operating in Spain; Spain operating in France. The EU’s push towards liberalising Europe’s rail is in full swing, and Renfe is taking advantage: it will relaunch an…
Spain’s Adif and its high-speed subsidiary, Adif AV, have announced they are investing 24.1 billion euros over the 2022–2026 period. That’s nearly three times bigger than the entire…
Adif has completed one of the most complex phases of adapting a railway junction known as ‘the Gateway to Europe’ to standard gauge. As an essential enclave for…
Spain’s transport minister has fired Ángel Contreras, the president of Adif, after he spent just nine and a half months at the head of Spain’s state-owned rail manager.…
Spain’s private low-cost operator Iryo has unveiled a new high-speed connection between Málaga and Barcelona. Setting off on 15 December, the daily 5-hour and 50-minute service will up…
Hungarian consortium Ganz-Mavag has withdrawn its tender offer to take over Spanish train manufacturer Talgo. That’s after Spain’s government decided to block the bid over “security concerns”, allegedly…
Spain’s government has blocked the 619 million euro sale of Spanish train producer Talgo to a Hungarian consortium due to “national security” concerns. That’s because the buyers are…
Spain’s state-owned rail company, Adif AV, has released 9 million euros for the upgrade of Catalonia’s main railway hub, Barcelona Sants station. Meanwhile, a top bidder is emerging…
Adif, Spain’s railway infrastructure company, announced more than half a billion euros worth of upgrades to Spain’s rail network this week. The slew of investments include electrifying an…
Spain’s high-speed rail use increased by 37 per cent in 2023, according to the latest Annual Railway Sector Report. Several of the key lines broke passenger records, the…
A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at the national rail infrastructure operator Adif have both been handed a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for their roles…
Spanish railway infrastructure company Adif Alta Velocidad (Adif AV) has secured a €430 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build high-speed rail lines connecting the…