Spain spends €258m to build trains too big for its tunnels

Spain spends €258m to build trains too big for its tunnels

Two travel bosses fired over engineering blunder as project to replace commuter trains goes back to the drawing board

Cs says Renfe knew two years ago that Cercanías trains couldn't fit through the tunnels of Cantabria

The spokesman for Citizens in the Santander City Council and Councilor for Urban Planning, Javier Ceruti, has...

An error in the Renfe specifications, after the crisis of trains that don't fit: the existing ones will be 'fixed'

The technical crisis has generated a real political fire. The diagnosis is clear: trains designed for Cantabria and Asturias do not fit in tunnels and users will be delayed by two or three years in a project that began processing in early 2019. But how is it possible that the designs are not compatible with rail routes in both regions? The answer lies in the contract specifications that Renfe provided to the companies that participated in the te…

Renfe dismisses the former train manager in Cantabria due to the error of calibo and Adif, the head of inspection

The serious error in the design of 31 new trains that were to be manufactured to come into operation next year on narrow-gauge railroads in

Renfe and Adif dismiss two managers due to the error in the size of Cantabria's trains

The public company defends that this decision will allow another person to participate in the working group that will be created within the Ministry to quickly close the design of the train tendered by Renfe.

The big railway sloppy: the new Renfe trains for Cantabria don't enter the tunnels

Renfe put out to tender the construction of new wagons with erroneous information on the gauges. To remedy this, a technique will be used that does not consider Spanish regulations, but European ones.