High pace in Spain, a 4 thousand km community with excessive security requirements | EUROtoday

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Spain has one of the in depth high-speed rail networks on the earth, with over 4,000 km of Ave (Tav) strains managed by Adif, second solely to China. It connects the principle cities similar to Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Seville, Valencia and Malaga, providing journeys typically lasting lower than 3 hours between the capitals at speeds of 300 km/h, operated by Renfe (Ave and Avlo) and by personal operators similar to Iryo (owned by Trenitalia) and Ouigo, which additionally connects to France. The high-speed community is provided with computerized pace management techniques (Ertms and Asfa) and “subjected to constant periodic maintenance”, as recalled by the Minister of Transport Oscar Puente, after the derailment of two trains in Adamuz (Cordoba), which on Sunday night triggered a minimum of 39 deaths and over 100 accidents, of which 30 in critical situations.

However, the system is taken into account secure, in response to European authorities and requirements, and in recent times the federal government has invested billions of euros in renewing the infrastructure, together with tracks, switches and signaling techniques. Serious accidents on TAV strains are very uncommon. The sadly best-known precedent stays that of Santiago de Compostela, on 24 July 2013, which nonetheless occurred outdoors a pure high-speed route, on a traditional line with regime change and in several working situations. Even then a long-distance Alvia practice was concerned which derailed on the entrance to the Angrois station, within the northern area of Galicia, inflicting 79 deaths and over 140 accidents in what remains to be thought-about essentially the most critical railway accident in Spain in latest many years.