the station Plaster continues to rise, eight years after the transfer of the main services to Urzáiz, as a solvent alternative for Adif and Renfe in Vigo.
After the fire in a chest in the vicinity of the Vialia shopping center this Thursday forced the transfer of passengers from the AxisAtlantic in shuttles to Pontevedra, the Areal street terminal will once again experience a unusual activity next weekend.
A fire in a chest in Urzáiz leaves 3,000 downtown users without electricity and suspends trains to Pontevedra
As FARO announced last Monday, the Alvia that cover the relationship with Madrid will be diverted by the Miño line to the second train station in the city due to the cut of the line between Santiago and Ourense.
Security system installation ERTMS will entail a complex Alternative Transport Plan by road between both cities between andl Saturday 22 and Monday 24 in which Vigo, for once, will be benefited.
The homologation works of these beacons that will allow to increase the benefits of the first High Speed route in the Galician community will force travelers from Pontevedra, Vilagarcía, Santiago, A Coruña and Ferrol to travel by bus to the thermal city to take the AVE or Alvia services to the plateau.
To them will be added those coming from Lugo y Monfortwhich since last November already have to travel part of the route in this way due to the adaptation works to the Atlantic Corridor of the conventional line,
The eight-month cut on the road between Ourense and Monforte will force double transfers
Despite Renfe has already guaranteed the mobility of passengers during the interruption of railway circulation, also publishing the new schedules for that weekend, tickets for these frequencies are not yet on sale in his web page.
A complex work and in two phases
As FARO was able to advance two weeks ago, the implementation of this security system will mean the closure of the line between Santiago de Compostela and Ourense between the night of Friday 21 and the morning of Monday 25 April. The execution will be carried out throughout the infrastructure, as well as in the stations of the two cities, to subsequently interrupt traffic in a second period (for approximately 12 days) with the aim of “continuing the training of train drivers, formalizing the closure of the file and deliver to the Railway Safety Agency for its resolution and put into operation once the commissioning has been authorized”.
Regarding this second term, Adif does not yet have forecasts and indicates that it will communicate it on its date, although everything indicates that it will be carried out once the course ends. For his part, on the Atlantic Axis between A Coruña and Vigo it will not be necessary to interrupt rail traffic for the installation of these beacons or the formation.
Return to Guixar after the pandemic
In July 2021 the head of the two Alvia lines that connect the city with Madrid through the Zamora road was changed, although until the pandemic it also circulated to the station chamartin he Trenhotel that diverted through León and Valladolid.
The Alvia Vigo-Madrid says goodbye to the Vía del Miño from Monday
The time difference between the High Speed itinerary through Pontevedra and SantiagoToday the nineteenth-century line of the Miño is barely about 15 minutes due to the kilometer detour. However, the centralization of services in Urzáiz –which aspires to have all of them when the southern exit is completed– and the best performance of the Atlantic Axis prompted this header change.
The cut of the train from Ourense to Monforte leaves the Galicians without better times on the Alvia to Barcelona
From the Areal street terminal, the bus continues to operate Alvia bound for Barcelona-Sants which has its departure at 7:42 in the morning Monday, Thursday y Saturdays. The rest of the days the link is made through a regional which connects the Catalan city with A Coruña.
To them are added the regional ones towards the Atlantic Axis and Ourense and Ponferrada, in addition to the Celtic Train operated by Comboios de Portugal to Porto.
A Coruña and Santiago will not assume the detours that Vigo does
Despite the fact that the transfer to Guixar falls within the logic and was plannedwithin the alternative transport plan there were last-minute surprises.
In a first statement, Renfe bet because the trains with origin and destination Ferrol they would make the journey by bus from the departmental city to A Coruña, where they would take a train to be diverted along the Atlantic Axis to round it up.
Los Alvia a Guixar, closer due to the technical line cut between Ourense and Santiago
There they would make a reverse march to take the Miño line, also giving service to the stations of Santiago, Vilagarcía and Pontevedra.
However, in its second version sent hours later, the public operator confirms that all travelers from the rest of the Atlantic axis and Ferrol will be transferred by bus directly to Ourense despite to be able to make the trip without transfers by taking advantage of the layout by Guillarei.
This decision contrasts with the “rodeos” that passengers from Vigo do take on a daily basis, that from July 2021 they must travel 90 kilometers north toBefore taking the line to Ourense from the by-pass of conjolocated south of Santiago.
The extra detour for the Vigo trains that will mean the arrival of the AVE to Santiago
After the arrival of High Speed at the end of the year, some of these services they would begin to add another 10 minutes of travel when making a stop in the capital autonomic
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