One of lime and another of sand for the railroad from Galiciawhere good news always ends up being overshadowed by orafter small disappointments. From On November 21, the Alvia route which connects the community with the whole north of the peninsula in Barcelona they will undergo two important changes that will affect their schedules and travel times to the cities of Castilla y León, Navarre and Aragón.
From next Monday the Railway Infrastructure Manager (Adif) will execute the file total cut of the line between Ourense and Monforte of Lemos to be able to undertake his renewalforcing the road transfer between the two cities.
This measure it will last 8 months and allows continuity to the works carried out between the old Galician railway junction and Lugo qwhich will allow their improvement of safety, reliability and electrification according to the standards of Atlantic corridor of goods.
And that same date was chosen by Renfe embark on a change that was an open secret from last summer. The public operator will start circulating through the Burgos high-speed line -inaugurated on July 21st and with an almost testimonial traffic- for what is its train with the most kilometers and passengers of the entire network despite having only one daily frequency: almost 14 hours of travel, more than 1,300 kilometers and hundreds of passengers in their interim reports.
This change of line will allow the circulation of higher speeds with 730 series trains during the 208.5 kilometers of High Speed that exists between León, Venta de Baños and Rosa Manzano station in Burgos; something that It already happens between Zaragoza and Barcelona for more than a decade.
for all cities located east of Burgos means saving around 41 minutes on your trip to León, not being the case from the west.
This double transhipment in Galician lands will cause the travel time to León increased by half an hour. However, from that moment on and already on the road from which Avril trains will run towards Asturias in the next year the times will be shortened.
Until Palencia the time will only increase by four minutes and then Burgos the trend will reverse until cut seven to the current. Also other cities like Pamplona, Zaragoza (with eight minutes less travel time) or Miranda de Ebro (with 21 minutes saved) will benefit.
The popularly known as “Octopus” for the links it offers with Salamanca, the Basque Country or Asturias It has two heads on the Galician side. the station Vigo-Guixar has departures on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays; while the rest of the days it connects to Ourense through a Regional with that of A Coruña and Santiago.
In recent months there has been speculation about the possibility that trains to Vigo had moved to Urzáiz station, In the footsteps of Madrileños centralized in the Thom-designed terminal mayne of the last year.
This change would allow for that reduce travel time by another 15 minutes from the town of Olive to Ourense, providing an unprecedented connection to Vilagarcia of Arousa.
However, its function as a backbone in Miño line from the 19th century did it continue to be one of the few circulations that can still be seen among Tui and the city of Las Burgas awaiting the replacement of some regional suspended since the outbreak of the pandemic.
