La High speed train e came Ourensebut it is not Galicia. This is the message that all members of the Galician government demand to initiate the commitment to implement it within the community boundaries as soon as possible, when, on 21 December 2020, the Galician AVE was launched between the capital city of Ourense and Madrid. .possible.
To enable a higher speed and speed up Galician connections, The 106 series of Talgo, known as the Avril train, will be implementedReaching speeds of up to 330 km/h, it will reduce travel times between main Galician cities.
This Saturday, in an exchange, one of the models of this train was rested and the test phase continued before the official implementation of this train. “This summer”, As Raquel Sánchez, Minister for Mobility, Transport and the Urban Agenda put it, but estimates suggest otherwise.
Talgo’s most advanced train Rested in the former assembly center of Miamán (Baños de Molgas) after covering and testing the last kilometers from the intersection From Taboadela to Ourense. He set the route at dusk and without commercial services The track, which will be opened by the Galician line to Burgos and this summer by making the reverse route from Venta de Baños on Sunday.
It won’t be until Monday that one of the fifteen variable units of measure arrives in Galicia for the first time. Where you can reach a speed of 363 km/h towards Santiago and the Atlantic Axis.
In this way, command and control systems, security systems and the rest of the parameters will eventually be tested on the Iberian gauge to continue the process that gave the green light to progress and operation.
It will be necessary to go from evidence to fact Final and positive report of the State Railways Safety Agency (AESF) and training in Renfe.
Two locomotives and twelve wagons, one in each direction. this was the structure April Tested on the roads of Ourense yesterday and approx. 200 meters. Silkscreened with the general operator’s colors, it already shows “failed” after months of testing.
Application forecast
The government has set the arrival date for this summer, and Xunta de Galicia president Alfonso Rueda hopes the agreed deadlines will be met. The head of the Galician government said in Ourense yesterday: “We don’t need to think that anything else is going to happen, They said they will come in July and we don’t have any information other than that. We hope that will happen,” he said.
However, according to the homologation estimates and also the adaptation of the train drivers to the new models, it is estimated that they will not come this summer, but they will not come in 2022.