MADRID, 5 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Nearly 2,200 high-speed, medium and long-distance trains from Renfe, Iryo and Ouigo will run on the Spanish rail network this Wednesday and Thursday, coinciding with the second phase of the Easter Week operation.
Only this Wednesday some 1,150 trains will circulate, according to data from Adif, the administrator of the railway infrastructure, highlighting the two main Madrid stations of Chamartín and Atocha.
Thus, Madrid-Puerta de Atocha Almudena Grandes has scheduled the departure and arrival of 440 trains during the two days (230 trains on Wednesday), which are added to the 347 trains that will depart from or have their destination in Madrid-Chamartín Clara Campoamor (185 trains this Wednesday).
Chamartín assumed its role as head of the line to Levante last year and practically all the trains to Valencia and Alicante already leave or arrive at this terminal.
For its part, a total of 505 trains are scheduled to depart or arrive at the Barcelona-Sants station between Wednesday and Thursday; in Valencia Joaquín Sorolla 137 trains; in Seville Santa Justa, 218 trains; and in Malaga-María Zambrano, 114.
The railway faces this first major movement of passengers of the year with a greater offer of trains and services and at lower prices, as a consequence of the liberalization process of rail passenger transport promoted by Adif.
In fact, Spain is the only country in Europe where travelers can choose between four brands of three railway companies (Renfe –AVE and Avlo—, Ouigo and Iryo) to travel at high speed to destinations such as Zaragoza, Tarragona , Barcelona or Valencia and, between two, in the case of routes to Córdoba, Seville and Málaga.
The high-speed network in Spain, the largest in Europe, allows travel to new destinations opened in the last 16 months, such as Galicia, Murcia or Burgos, and reduces travel times to others, such as the Basque Country.
Now it is also possible to make trips from cities such as Valencia and several cities in the northern half of the country, such as Burgos or Valladolid, directly, without changing trains or stations in Madrid, thanks to the new high-speed tunnel that Adif put into service in July last year that, crossing the ‘heart’ of the capital.
