Vigo-Guixar railway station

Vigo Guixar is a railhead galizisischen city of Vigo (Spain) and was put into operation on August 27, 2011. It is up to the new building of the railway station Vigo Urzáiz are intended to stop at the future high-speed trains (AVE ), as the main railway station of the city. The station is operated by the Spanish railway infrastructure company ADIF and bears the internal code 22308th

Location

The station Vigo Guixar is located in Rua area at the city harbor. Are more than 700 meters between the train station under construction Vigo Urzáiz and Guixar.

History

To connect the city of Vigo in the Spanish high-speed network, it was necessary to convert the railway station Vigo Urzáiz completely. To continue enabling Vigo passenger traffic, the Spanish construction and Transport Ministry decided to build a temporary station at Vigoer Güterbahnhof Guixar.

Construction of the station began in late 2009 and could be finished in August 2011, a year later. The construction costs were originally estimated at eleven million euros, they amounted to 17.5 million euro eventually. On August 27, 2011, the Spanish Transport Minister José Blanco López opened the station together with the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero.

The Spanish railway company Renfe lamented that over 7000 passengers would have lost by the move of traffic from Urzáiz after Guixar the regional traffic.

Construction

The station is a terminal station with an area of over 1000 square meters, it has three platforms, each with 100, 165 and 285 meter long platforms and five tracks. The station has a two-story, held in a contemporary style reception building. While the first floor have the station management and platoon leader on rooms, is located on the ground floor a Renfe travel center, a waiting room and a cafeteria. Outside the station there is a large car park.

Traffic

The station has both connection to the Regional - like long-distance transport of Renfe. There are two regional rail lines with connections to A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, Ourense, León. In the long-distance transport, there are five pairs of trains with connections to Alicante, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao, Burgos, Hendaye, Madrid, San Sebastian, Valencia and Zaragoza. There is also a direct connection named Celta in the Portuguese city of Porto.

At the railway station and regular bus also the local bus company Vitrasa.