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years of Spanish high speed rail

Euromed 16 June 1997 to February 2017 “20 years”

YEAR Passengers Revenues Ave. revenues Passengers Km/Pass.
Kilometres
1997 366.565 8.495.907 23,18 129.600.000 353,55
1998 797.485 19.323.140 24,23 285.600.000 358,13
1999 920.741 23.518.806 25,54 335.300.000 364,16
2000 1.083.767 27.779.981 25,63 398.212.522 367,43
2001 1.267.862 33.796.302 26,66 468.402.708 369,44
2002 1.278.949 35.493.800 27,75 474.696.041 371,16
2003 1.284.938 37.359.362 29,07 474.370.734 369,18
2004 1.276.227 38.088.652 29,84 468.873.839 367,39
2005 1.316.720 40.746.800 30,95 479.176.180 363,92
2006 1.317.911 41.785.800 31,71 474.519.426 360,05
2007 1.296.574 42.110.323 32,48 463.842.936 357,75
2008 1.356.845 44.161.129 32,55 486.316.808 358,42
2009 1.254.648 41.726.853 33,26 453.046.108 361,09
2010 1.175.948 39.979.742 34,00 427.512.524 363,55
2011 1.183.651 40.467.347 34,19 434.498.851 367,08
2012 1.113.596 37.452.796 33,63 408.780.254 367,08
2013 1.195.662 38.202.207 31,95 443.101.346 370,59
2014 1.269.048 39.522.990 31,14 470.745.481 370,94
2015 1.293.695 39.680.812 30,67 475.978.709 367,92
2016 1.362.539 40.606.459 29,80 499.996.301 366,96
2017. Ac. Febr. 201.926 5.734.259 28,40 72.121.043 357,17
ROLLING STOCK:
The service began with ALSTOM Series 101 rolling stock
On March 30, 2002, trainset 101.001 had an accident at Torredembarra
In April 2006 this trainset returned to commercial service with some modifications to one of its traction heads (belonging the double decker TGV)
In the period of the damaged trainset, the Euromed service was covered by 2 Talgo VII (Altaria) trainsets
During 2009 the rolling stock was replaced by Talgo Series 130 trainsets
On November 1, 2009, the Series 101 was taken out of service to be converted into Series 100 trainsets and provide service on the Madrid-Seville high speed line.

helped out at the access controls, we made sure wanted to avoid that kind of pigeonholing, they
that procedures and the established sequences mucked in like everyone else on equal terms). We
were adhered to, helping out the crew. And what was were all very clear about what our role was and we
most important, we interacted with the customers. all made an effort to fulfil that role. A dream come
They didn’t need to come to us to ask us questions; true”. It is difficult to define the intangible benefits
we were the ones who approached them, offering that arose from that complete turnabout. Intangible
them help or explaining the features of our train. elements played a very important role in the origins
I say “our train” because that was how we felt. We of Euromed.
were concerned about everything involving the
Euromed: we worried about trains running with few Growth
passengers, we were unhappy if we couldn’t solve a
problem or satisfy a request. In short, we were crazy The result, however, was completely
about our work and we felt happy”. tangible. In 1997, 355,565 passengers travelled on
José Ramón Salas, also a supervisor in the the Euromed and in 1998 that figure doubled. By
early days, says that, “More than a product it was an 1999 the figure had risen to 920,741. The growth
idea of a different kind of service, a dream, a way of experienced by the new service exceeded all
feeling, a way to relate to people from a standpoint expectations, which encouraged Renfe to
of mutual understanding, friendliness, good taste increase the service in September 1998 with the
and respect. But not only with the passengers on the addition of one more train to Alicante (three trains
train; it was also the way we workmates related with between Barcelona and Alicante and two between
each other and how we related to those responsible Barcelona and Valencia). In June 2000 a new train
for the service (I don’t want to call them bosses they to Alicante was introduced and the following

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