The Spanish government will invest 24.2 billion euros in rail infrastructure over the next five years. This was announced by Minister of Transport and Mobility Raquel Sánchez this week.Read more
In order to mitigate the effects of the crisis caused by Covid-19 on rail transport, Spain extends the reduced track access charges. This was detailed in one of the amendments to the General State Budgets...Read more
Trenitalia has requested 550 million at the European Investment Bank (EIB) to finance rolling stock for the operations of ILSA in Spain and operations under their own name in Italy.Read more
The continuous rise in the price of raw materials is affecting several rail construction projects, says president of Adif María Luisa Domínguez. Among these are the Madrid – Extremadura high-speed line and the Mediterranean corridor...Read more
Works have started on the first 750-meter-long sidings on the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto line in Spain. This railway line that forms an essential link to the ports will be upgraded to handle 750-metre trains. Cariñena station in...Read more
The Eurostar might just get some Spanish competition in the Eurotunnel. Spanish operator Renfe is planning to operate on the route between Paris and London. Read more
Facial recognition gives access to areas in a train station, and maintenance workers have a real-time digital model of elements directly on their phone. These are some of the possibilities of 5G, which Vodafone and...Read more
New Spanish operator ILSA has signed a 30-year agreement with Hitachi Rail for the maintenance of ILSA’s 20 new ETR 1000 trains. Train maintenance will include predictive and corrective activities.Read more
Spanish railway workers, mostly train drivers, have striked on 5 days from September 30th. Union SEMAF called the strike, partly joined by union Sindicato Ferroviario, but Renfe and SEMAF reached an agreement to call off...Read more
New Spanish high-speed operator ILSA started the process of homologation of their brand new fleet. The first ETR 1000, out of a fleet of 20, began the first stage of the process on the Figueras-Perpignan...Read more
Spanish national operator Renfe will make a request to the ministry of finance to create a branch in Paris. The board of directors has approved this step to develop business opportunities in France, for which...Read more
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, more passengers travelled on the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed line than before the health crisis. The growing trend is expected to continue with the introduction of third operator Ilsa,...Read more
“Artificial Intelligence can play a large role in optimising the ventilation strategy in metro networks”, says Enrique Gómez Cristóbal of SENER. The Spanish company designed an AI system which improves thermal comfort and air quality,...Read more
Ouigo España, which started operations between Madrid and Barcelona last May, has train occupancy rates of up to 95 per cent. The SNCF subsidiary is already planning to operate to Valencia and Alicante.Read more
Are synthetic sleepers a viable alternative to wooden ones? To find this out, Adif will place them on parts of the Spanish network as a test. In the coming months, the first hundred of them...Read more
