Vigo-Guixar train station
Vigo-Guixar is a terminus station in the Galician city of Vigo (Spain) and was put into operation on August 27, 2011. It will serve as the city's main train station until the Vigo-Urzáiz train station is rebuilt , where high-speed trains ( AVE ) will stop in the future . The station is operated by the Spanish railway infrastructure company adif and has the internal code 22308.
location
The Vigo-Guixar train station is located in the Rua area at the port of the city. There is a good 700 meters between the Vigo-Urzáiz train station, which is currently under construction, and Guixar.
history
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In order to connect the city of Vigo to the Spanish high-speed network, it was necessary to completely rebuild the Vigo-Urzáiz station. In order to enable Vigo to continue passenger traffic, the Spanish Ministry of Construction and Transport decided to build a temporary station at the Guixar freight yard in Vigo.
Construction work on the station began at the end of 2009 and was completed a good year later in August 2011. The construction costs were originally estimated at eleven million euros, they came to 17.5 million euros in the end. 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 complained that the relocation of traffic from Urzáiz to Guixar would have lost a good 7,000 passengers on regional traffic.
construction
The station is a terminal station with an area of a good 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, modern style reception building. While the station management and train driver have rooms on the first floor, there is a Renfe travel center, a waiting room and a cafeteria on the ground floor. There is a large car park in front of the train station.
traffic
The station has a connection to both regional and long-distance traffic operated by Renfe . There are two regional transport lines with connections to A Coruña , Santiago de Compostela , Pontevedra , Ourense and León . In long-distance traffic, there are five pairs of trains with connections to Alicante , Barcelona , Bilbao , Burgos , Hendaye , Madrid , San Sebastián , Valencia and Zaragoza . There is also a direct connection called Celta to the Portuguese city of Porto .
There are also bus routes operated by the local bus company Vitrasa at the station .
Web links
- Information from the operator adif about the train station (Spanish)
- Video on Youtube for the opening of the train station (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comienza la construcción de la estación provisional de Guixar que operará mientras se levanta la del AVE. La Voz de Galicia, December 20, 2009, accessed March 3, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ La estación provisional de Guixar comienza tomar forma con la cimentación. Faro de Vigo, March 30, 2010, accessed March 3, 2014 (Spanish).
- ^ Fomento licita las obras de construcción de la estación provisional de Guixar. (No longer available online.) La Voz de Galicia, May 21, 2009, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; Retrieved on March 3, 2014 (Spanish): “El Ministerio de Fomento ha licitado hoy las obras de la estación provisional de ferrocarril de Vigo en Guixar que contarán con un presupuesto de 11,646,014.81 euros.” Info: The archive link was automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b El Ministro de Fomento pone en servicio la nueva estación de Vigo-Guixar. (PDF) Ministerio de Fomento, August 27, 2011, accessed on March 3, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ Las obras de la nueva estación de Vigo-Urzáiz comenzarán el 24 de septiembre. Faro de Vigo, August 27, 2011, accessed March 3, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ El tráfico regional perdió 7,000 pasajeros al mes en 2011 tras la apertura de Guixar. Faro de Vigo, March 25, 2012, accessed March 3, 2014 (Spanish).
Coordinates: 42 ° 14 ′ 21.5 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 42.8" W.