When was renfe created

Siemens Mobility is supplying 26 trains S under a contract which includes a year maintenance agreement. The builder also secured a year maintenance sharing contract.

German technology is at the heart of the operational control system. A cab signalling system is coupled with a continuous speed control facility. Siemens supplied an ISDN communications system which transmits speech, data, text and images.

This proved a success on the Madrid-Seville route and it was adopted as a standard for subsequent routes to Barcelona and Narbonne across the French border. Because of its use of existing lines, conventional signalling was retained between Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante. A signalling contract was awarded to a consortium of Alcatel, Dimetronic and Siemens for the Madrid-Segovia and Valdestillas-Valladolid sections of the Madrid-Valladolid line.

However, problems with some newly installed signalling equipment led to delays and penalty payments being made. Following much delay including technical and legal challenges connected with passage through the city, Barcelona Sants became linked with Madrid Atocha with a km mile high-speed rail link in February Two further lines, connecting Barcelona to Figueres and Figueres to Perpignan, are expected to become operational in Comments by the Portuguese Prime Minister indicate that the long-anticipated Madrid-Lisbon line may open by The possibility of a southern rail link to North Africa seems to be gaining substance.

A joint committee is working on aspects of a project for a 39km tunnel between Punta Palomas near the projected Spanish high-speed extension to Algeciras to Punta Malabata in Morocco, a country which has a 1,mm high-speed rail system under development.

The Bahrain metro project is a km-long urban metro transit system proposed to be developed in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Reader View of Wikipedia. It was created in upon the split of the old Renfe national company into ADIF which inherited the infrastructure and Renfe-Operadora which inherited the rolling stock.

It enjoyed a monopoly on high-speed rail services in Spain until The Railway Sector Act, separated the management, maintenance and construction of rail infrastructure from train operation. The first activity is now the responsibility of Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias ADIF , the legal successor of RENFE, while the newly created Renfe-Operadora commercial name "Renfe Operadora" or simply "Renfe" owns the rolling stock and remains responsible for the planning, marketing and operation of passenger and freight services though no longer with a legal monopoly.

Renfe Operadora inherited the management model of the business units of the old Renfe, which made Renfe Operadora responsible for the operation of the following passenger and freight services.

In January , Renfe Operadora restructured the main business units into four:. The Spanish state railways are currently engaged in a transformation and modernisation project. So far, the company has introduced improvements to their internet ticket sales and adopted new ICT management practices within a "more industrial" organisational model, though Mr.

Gomez has publicly acknowledged the difficulties in transforming what still remains a very hierarchical organisation. In June , Renfe's board agreed to restructure the organisation into four separate companies, responsible for:. These four would be underneath a single holding company. The company operates some 12, km 7, mi of railways, 7, km 4, mi of them electrified. The newer high-speed AVE network has been built to the international standard gauge of 1, mm for the connection to the rest of the European railway system.

Renfe said studies had shown that the Eurotunnel route, which opened in , could be profitable and workable over the coming years. According to demand analysis, it would be viable and profitable for Renfe to compete with Eurostar. Renfe said a second phase could include a service to new French and international destinations, adding that operating between London and Paris would boost its international reputation.