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SPECIAL

years of Spanish high speed rail

Avril by Talgo:

Renfe’s new high-speed,

variable gauge train

R On 28 November the Minister of Public Works,

Íñigo de la Serna, officially announced the
Renfe Viajeros has awarded Talgo the tender for the
supply and maintenance over 30 years of fifteen
high-speed trains at a cost of €22.5 million for each
composition and a maintenance cost of €2.49 per award of a tender for the supply of fifteen
new high-speed trains to Patentes Talgo for
kilometre travelled.
This involves a total amount of €786.47 million, an overall price, including maintenance for
which represents a 28% reduction on the tender
price and includes entire lifecycle, with secondary thirty years, of €786.5 million.
maintenance activities being reserved for Renfe
Integria workshops.
The trains will make it possible to cope with class cars and a cafeteria car. They will be tri-voltage
growing demand for high-speed services, which has - 25 kV 50 Hz AC, 3 kV DC and 1.5 kV DC - and will
increased by 60% since 2013, as well as the new lines be equipped with ERTMS and Asfa Digital signalling
currently under construction that will expand the systems, with ten of them having the French TVM
network in the coming years and also the process of signalling system. The trains will be able to run at a
Passenger service liberalization that will entail new maximum speed of 330 km/h.
demands for operators from 2020. The new Avril (expected to be classified as Renfe
Class 106 or Renfe Class 122) will be interoperable,
The trains lightweight units - the lightest on the market with
30% less mass than a standard train - and 25% more
The new Avril trains will be twelve car units, energy-efficient than the previous high-speed series.
three of them being business class, eight tourist Talgo assesses its reliability at around 1.25

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