Cercanías

Cercanías are called in Spain, operated by the national railway company RENFE suburban trains. In the autonomous regions of Catalonia and Valencia, the Catalan name Rodalies is used.

The Cercanías systems use the infrastructure of RENFE, which is usually based on the Spanish broad gauge. They are characterized by high travel speeds, larger station spacing and modern rolling stock. In Madrid and Barcelona, ​​longer tunnel sections are used.

In the web spiders of transport networks, the Cercanías can be seen with line numbers C -1, C -2, etc., or in Barcelona with R1 to R7.

Cercanías networks

In Cercanías lines in the cities of Ferrol and León, which are exclusively operated by the railway company feve, is DMUs with thin overclocking, so you can not speak of the S -Bahn - operation in these cases.

Planned networks

In Galicia, will go into operation on completion of the high-speed lines in the metropolitan areas of A Coruña and Vigo, two other networks. It will be partly used existing tracks, on which are vacated by the relocation of the remote intercourse on the high-speed capabilities.

Madrid cable stops

On 11 March 2004 was the Madrid Cercanías network target of terrorist bombings. In trains in Atocha train station and in the vicinity there were a total of ten explosions. Here, 191 people died and several were injured.