WITH the hottest part of the year approaching in Spain, Rente subsidiary Cercanías Madrid is trialling a project that uses vinyls applied to the exterior surface of carriage windows to reduce the interior temperature of rolling stock by up to 30%.

SPAIN’s minister of public works Mr Iñigo de la Serna announced in Barcelona on February 6 that Renfe is planning to launch a new low-fares high-speed service between Barcelona and Madrid next year.

SPAIN’s national operator Renfe has awarded a €107m contract to Talgo to convert 13 series 7 overnight trains into 330km/h day trains.

ACCORDING to Spanish press reports, Spain’s Ministry of Development and national train operator Renfe are finalising plans for a €2bn rolling stock investment plan covering the period 2017-2028. The total investment could be much higher if Renfe includes maintenance in the contracts it awards.

SPAIN’s prime minister Mr Mariano Rajoy officially inaugurated a 72km extension to the country’s high-speed network from Valencia to Castellón on the Mediterranean Corridor on January 22 ahead of the start of commercial services on January 23.

SPAIN’s development minister Mr Iñigo de la Serna and minister of energy, tourism and digitalisation Mr Álvaro Nadal visited Asturias on January 8 to officially launch trials of what is claimed to be the first main line passenger train in Europe to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG).

SPANISH operator Renfe is set to begin pilot tests next month of a self-propelled passenger train powered with liquefied natural gas (LNG) in what the operator says are the first such trials in Europe.

SPAIN’s national train operator Renfe has turned a loss of €18.8m during the first five months of 2016 into a profit of €14.9m for the same period this year according to a report presented to the Renfe board by its president Mr Juan Alfaro on June 27.

THE board of Spanish national train operator Renfe voted on May 31 to approve the acquisition of 15 additional Talgo Avril high-speed trains.

SPANISH national train operator Renfe is set to exercise an option with Talgo for 15 additional Avril high-speed trains, just six months after it awarded a contract to supply and maintain an initial batch of 15 of the 330km/h trains.