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Verdict reached on Angrois derailment
Verdict reached on Angrois derailment

Eleven years and two days after the derailment on 24 July 2013 of a Class 730 Alvia express on the curve at Angrois, on the approach to Santiago de Compostela station, the enquiry court reached its final verdict on 26 July 2024.

Tatravagónka semitrailer pocket wagons on test
Tatravagónka semitrailer pocket wagons on test

Deliveries of the first pocket wagons for the future 'rail motorway' service between València and Madrid were delayed during the spring.

Adif's new diagnostics FLIRT starts tests in Spain
Adif's new diagnostics FLIRT starts tests in Spain

In December 2019 Adif awarded a consortium of Stadler and MerMec a 74.4 million EUR contract for three diagnostics trains, two EDMUs for use on the 1,668 mm gauge network, and one 1,435 mm gauge EDMU for use on the 1,435 mm gauge high speed network.

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Variante de Pajares inaugurated (2)
Variante de Pajares inaugurated (2)

On 29 November 2023 at 13.35 a Class 130 ALVIA departed from Madrid-Chamartín, bound for Oviedo, the new, fast way, via the base tunnel under the Cordillera Cantábrica.

Variante de Pajares inaugurated (1)
Variante de Pajares inaugurated (1)

On 29 November 2023 at 13.35 a Class 130 ALVIA departed from Madrid-Chamartín, bound for Oviedo, the new, fast way, via the base tunnel under the Cordillera Cantábrica.

Simulated evacuations - and first fare-paying passenger - on Variante de Pajares
Simulated evacuations - and first fare-paying passenger - on Variante de Pajares

With under two months to go before the formal inauguration of the high speed line between Pola de Lena and La Robla, under the Cordillera Cantábrica, the final stage of testing arrived early in the mornings of 26 and 27 September, the days of simulated evacuations.

First commercial test train on Pajares Variante
First commercial test train on Pajares Variante

There is no point in running a test freight train unless it carries a commercial payload. Such was the case when the final session of verification testing started on the new high speed line between Pola de Lena and La Robla on 1 September 2023.

Adif orders one more diagnostics train
Adif orders one more diagnostics train

On 3 July 2023, following an invitation to tender issued in December 2022, Adif announced that it had ordered a diagnostics train from CAF.

CAF's HEMU prototype to be tested on the Spanish network
CAF's HEMU prototype to be tested on the Spanish network

On 6 June 2023 the FCH2Rail project, in which a bi-mode demonstrator train with hydrogen fuel cells is being developed, has achieved an important milestone by obtaining authorisation to run in tests on the Spanish national network.

Variante De Pajares: MITMA Finally Names The Day (Or Rather, Month)
Variante De Pajares: MITMA Finally Names The Day (Or Rather, Month)

On 3 May 2023, during a meeting with Adrián Barbón, the President of the Principality of Asturias, the Secretary General for Infrastructures, Xavier Flores, announced that the 50 km high speed line from La Robla to Pola de Lena, through the 25 km base tunnel under the Cordillera Cantábrica, would be opened to commercial traffic 'during November 2023'.

"Doctor Green" On Test At Velim
"Doctor Green" On Test At Velim

One of the three Adif's new diagnosticts FLIRTs arrived at the VUZ Velim test facility on 20 February 2023.

Pajares Handover Of Infrastructure
Pajares Handover Of Infrastructure

On 20 February 2023, around 20 years after the official start of construction and 18 years after the first tunnel lining ring was moved into position, Adif Alta Velocidad took the significant step of transferring the infrastructure of the Variante de Pajares high speed line, between La Robla and Pola de Lena to its filial concern, Adif Circulación y Mantenimiento.

The Variante: Current Status
The Variante: Current Status

In June 2022 MITMA announced that the Variante between La Robla and Pola de Lena, under construction since 2004 at cost which is likely to exceed 4 billion EUR, would be inaugurated in May 2023.

High Speed To Murcia
High Speed To Murcia

The final 15.9 km of high speed line between Orihuela and Murcia were inaugurated on 19 December 2022.

Test Running Starts Between Madrid-Chamartín, Madrid-Atocha And Torrejón De Velasco
Test Running Starts Between Madrid-Chamartín, Madrid-Atocha And Torrejón De Velasco

Over the weekend of 5/6 February 2022 test running on this new cross-city 1,435 mm gauge line started, using Renfe's AVLO 112.013 and 021.