Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca

The Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca ( SFM) operates the rail lines Palma-Inca - Manacor, Inca - Sa Pobla and the Metro de Palma. It is a state-owned railway company of the Spanish Balearic Islands Region, with headquarters in the capital Palma.

History

The first railway line between Palma and Mallorca Inca was from Mallorca engineer Eusebi Estada i Sureda (1843-1917) planned and opened in February 1875. It was built mainly with English material as a narrow-gauge railway with a track width of 914 mm equal to 3 English feet, which allows the use of already available at that time British steam locomotives and cars allowed and thus kept costs low. In the following years, the other routes via Manacor to Arta, Sa Pobla, of Santa Maria, on the route Palma - Inca to Felanitx and from Palma to Santanyi were built. By 1977, however, all routes of Ferrocarriles de Mallorca were shut down except for the route Palma - Inca.

In 1994, the current state company Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca was founded by the Government of the Balearic Islands. Since then, the fleet has been modernized, made ​​the Umspurung on the meter gauge and expanded its route network again. Following the existing route from Palma to Inca 1981 abandoned lines to Sa Pobla was reactivated in 2000 initially.

In 2003, the extension was followed to Manacor. When the residents of Petra demanded the construction of a tunnel on the old route, the path was instead guided around the city, so that the new breakpoint just 500 meters outside of the village is because the SFM was not willing to pay for a tunnel. The railway facilities of the route Manacor Arta are still present, but in a state of decay. Currently (as of 2010 ), the route to Arta restored and renovated stations. In addition to Sa Pobla a new route to Alcudia be built.

Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca recorded in 2005 a new passenger record: In April, 320,000 passengers were counted. The Company will therefore increase its fleet; 2002 have already been several new, now three -car multiple units with expanded capacity, but technically only slightly different from the previous two-piece and can be coupled with these train sets to put into operation.

In the spring of 2010, a landslide occurred in the night-time operation break on the Streckenast to Manacor. The first coming of Manacor train drove into the boulders, derailed and was heavily damaged. The reasons for the landslide to September 2010 were not yet fully understood, the trains ran during the road closures trips between Palma and Sineu Sineu between Manacor and was a rail replacement bus service with buses. The damaged vehicles of the train accident are partially draped with tarps, on a gravel place on Enllaç station.

In July 2011, was used by the Balearic Government Rosé Ramón Orta as managing director of the company. The SFM is currently in debt. Thus, the liabilities alone to the banks amounted to 350 million euros in annual revenue of 5 million euros compared to payroll expenses of 14.1 million euros. Invoices from suppliers could not be paid since October 2010. For the new line Manacor Arta is a construction freeze after 29 percent of the project were executed ( without the purchase of new trains 19 percent). The timing of the resumption of work at the track is questionable.

Route network Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca

The following places are included with stops in today's network:

Added to this are holding in the suburbs of Palma Son Olivia, Son Fuster, Verge de Lluc, Pont D' Inca, Pont D' Inca Nou and Poligon. The suburban stops of capital between Palma and Marratxí only be operated by the trains to Sa Pobla. Trains to Manacor to pass through Marratxí. For commutes an additional train between Palma and Marratxí. The journey Palma - Manacor is about 60 minutes.

Rolling stock

The 1875 procured steam locomotive was given the number 1 and the name of MALLORCA. 1889 was followed by a locomotive of Nasmith - Wilson. The locomotive ALFONSO XIII. 1902 manufactured on the island. 1921 steam locomotive manufactured in Kopel in Berlin was delivered.

Since 2002, new vehicles the Spanish company CAF are used in the Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca. For Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca designs, plans, fabrication and testing were carried out in the period from 1995 to 1998.

Each railcar has 2 diesel engines with hydraulic transmission and is characterized by the following technical data:

• Length: 32 m
• Track width: 1000 mm
• Height: 3,745 m
• Doors on each side: 2
• Door Width: 1.2 m
• Maximum speed: 100 km / h
• Motor Overall power: 620 kW at 2100 rpm
• Seats per unit: 252
• Standing room per unit: 156
• Special Equipment:
• Train guidance
• Automated station announcements, radio system
• Mechanical and Pneumatic Door Automatic with sensor monitoring
• Fire-extinguishing system
• Air conditioning with separate diesel generator
• Scharfenberg coupler ( Schaku; under license CAF) for rapid amplification and weaknesses of train sets

Further plans

As a contribution to the island railway to ease road congestion was planned to reactivate large parts of the route network. These included the links:

• Inca - Alcudia: Up Sa Pobla in operation
• Inca - Arta - ( Cala Millor, Cala Ratjada ): Up Manacor in operation until Arta under construction; remaining rail line in planning
• Palma - Santanyi: In Planning

By December 2011, the reconstruction of the section from Manacor to Arta was provided. You should be operated from six newly purchased electric trains from Vossloh España. The coatings produced in Albuixech (Valencia ) were delivered in March 2011 after Mallorca. The trains are each 37 meters long, 2.55 meters wide and offer 317 passengers. There are so-called trams ( tram-train ) with a top speed up to 100 km / h After the election of José Ramón Bauzà of the conservative Partit Popular de Balears president of the Balearic Islands in June 2011, a freeze was placed in August 2011 for the route. The end of 2012 it was decided by the regional government, not complete the railway line.

On February 17, 2012, recorded with the introduction of a new timetable, the electric train operation between Palma ( Estacio Intermodal ) and the branch station Enllaç. To proceed to Sa Pobla or Manacor has since then to change at Enllaç. For the electrical operation corresponding new trainsets were delivered by CAF. The electrification of sections Enllaç - Manacor and Sa Pobla - Enllaç are currently still in the planning stage.

New railway terminal in Palma

In the capital, Palma, the SFM received a new, central, underground terminus in 2007. The previous station, the starting point of the double-track line towards Inca, was separated on 16 August 2005 the rail network and completely demolished in the following weeks. As of August 17, 2005 began and ended all trains around 1 kilometers to the northeast in a temporary terminus. Together with the construction of the Metro de Palma, located underground station Estacio Intermodal was on the site of the old railway station and the eastern Parc de Ses Estacions for around 90 million euros - Plaça d' Espanya built and opened in March 2007. The new station with five platforms and ten tracks serves both the SFM and the metro to the university as a terminus and also houses a bus station for regional and city buses as well as a car park.