Two of the six new trains that will renew the long-distance fleet have already disembarked.
The State Railway Company (EFE Chile) announced that this Thursday they arrived at the Port of San Antonio two new fleets that will serve for the new Chillán-Santiago routeThis was communicated through its official Instagram by the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.
This was the first delivery of a total of six trains that will come to renew the fleet of the long distance service that currently operates regularly.
The railway women led the disembarkation of new trains for service. The place was attended by Juan Carlos Muñoz, Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications Juan Carlos Muñoz and the president of EFE Eric Martin, in addition to several other authorities related to the field.
“We are receiving the first two of the six trains that come for the Santiago-Chillán service. youtrains that will allow us to unite the two cities in approximately 3 hours 40 minutes and that serve between 800,000 and one million passengers a year”, commented the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications.
For his part, the president of EFE, Eric Martin added that “the job now is very delicately to lower the trains to be able to take them to our station and then from there to be able to transport them to the Central Station and after that do some tests for four months.”
The services of the new trains
The acquired trains that will operate on the new Santiago-Chillán route will be the fastest in South America. These may reach 160 km/hallowing the trip to be achieved in 3 hours and 40 minutes, the first EFE service that will achieve it.
Additionally, these new machines include: capacity for 236 passengers, automatic access and level doors, and bathrooms with universal accessibility.
“These teams come with bimodal technology that allows continuity both in the part when it has electric power and also to operate under diesel traction. YouIt has a greater capacity for passengers, they have a cafeteria, they are air-conditioned”said Constanza Villalobos, EFE passenger manager.
