Vigo-Urzáiz railway station
| Vigo-Urzáiz | |
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 Entrance area of the train station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| opening | 1881 (first train station) 2015 (second station) |
| Conveyance | 2011 (first station) |
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| City / municipality | Vigo |
| province | Pontevedra Province |
| Autonomous community | Galicia |
| Country | Spain |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 14 '3 " N , 8 ° 42' 49" W |
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| List of train stations in Spain | |
The Vigo-Urzáiz train station (Spanish and Galego: Estación de Vigo-Urzáiz ) is one of the two adif head train stations in the Galician city of Vigo . After a four-year shutdown due to construction work, the station was reopened in 2015 as the future terminal for high-speed trains.
history
Construction work on the Urzáiz station began in 1878 and opened in 1881 when the Ourense – Vigo railway was opened to traffic. In 1981 the feeder line was electrified with 3000 volts direct current.
In 1987 the station building from 1881 was replaced by a new building.
In 2011, the Vigo-Urzáiz station was temporarily shut down in order to build a new high-speed station for a construction cost of 68.4 million euros. The temporary Vigo-Guixar station , 700 meters from Urzáiz, was built for rail traffic on the site of a former freight station. Construction work was completed in 2015 and the station reopened on April 18 of the same year. The high-speed Vigo – Santiago – A Coruña line was completed in March 2015. Contrary to initial plans, the Guixar station will not be shut down, but both stations will split the traffic. The new station has six platform tracks on four platforms.
traffic
Despite the completion of the high-speed station, the station is currently only served by trains in the Media Distancia Galicia category . They connect the station with A Coruña via Santiago de Compostela and Pontevedra . The original plan was to move the Alvia high-speed trains to Madrid-Chamartín , Alicante / Alacant Terminal and Barcelona-Sants from Guixar station to Urzáiz by June 2015, but this has not yet taken place. The other long-distance trains (Trenhotel to Madrid and Barcelona and the Tren Celta to Porto Campanhã ) will remain in Vigo-Guixar, as will most of the regional connections.