In a press release, the general public firm defends that this choice will permit the participation of one other particular person within the working group Renfe has already reached an settlement with CAF, Adif and the Railway Safety Agency (AESF) to unclog the issue It is estimated that the development of the trains that haven’t but been manufactured takes round three years
In a press release, the general public firm defends that this choice will permit the participation of one other particular person within the working group that will probably be created inside the Ministry to shortly shut the design of the practice tendered by Renfe, whereas the audit is carried out.
“Adif will collaborate with absolute transparency within the audit of the Ministry of Transport and can assess its conclusions to proceed with the ultimate organizational changes which are beneficial”, he identified.
Renfe has already reached an settlement with CAF, Adif and the Railway Safety Agency (AESF) to unclog the issue with the gauges of the brand new metric-gauge trains meant for suburban and medium-distance providers primarily in Cantabria, but in addition for Asturias , Basque Country, Galicia, Castilla y León and Murcia. The excellent news is that no practice had but been constructed.
Although not one of the events has confirmed the size of time it should take to unravel this drawback, it’s estimated that the development of the trains that haven’t but been capable of be manufactured will take round three years, and a few procedures nonetheless have to be solved in order that the answer agreed will be carried out.
Specifically, the AESF has to authorize the appliance of a technique that doesn’t embrace the Spanish laws however the European one, and develop its procedures. This is the so-called ‘comparative methodology’, which consists of utilizing a practice that at present runs on the traces as a reference for the brand new trains that Renfe will present.
CAF may also have to rent an organization specialised within the software of this methodology and the contract between Renfe and the corporate should be modified to introduce a monitoring of the challenge with that reference practice.
For its half, Adif may also have to supply the infrastructure characterization knowledge and decide to conserving it inside the identical parameters.
Origin of the issue
The origin of the issue lies within the gauges printed within the Adif community assertion, which Renfe used to explain the technical traits of the brand new trains in a contract that it printed in 2019 to amass 31 metric gauge trains, meant to resume the commuter and medium-distance community fleet, primarily within the north of the nation.
In June 2020, Renfe awarded this contract to CAF, a producer of trains and buses based mostly within the Basque Country, for 258 million euros. When getting ready the challenge, CAF realized that there was an error within the gauges and that the tracks wouldn’t assist the trains ordered, and so they transferred this to their consumer, Renfe.
The contract awarded in 2020 set the contract execution interval at 220 months, round 18 years and 4 months. As it included 15-year upkeep of some models, the remaining three years and 4 months could be the time period for the manufacture of the trains, though they’re usually delivered progressively. Therefore, the primary trains ought to have been prepared by October 2024 on the newest.