Antequera railway test

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The Antequera Railway Test ( Spanish Centro de ensayos de alta tecnología ferroviaria de Antequera ) was a planned railway test facility near the southern Spanish city of Antequera . According to the Spanish government, the plant should be the largest of its kind once it has been completed. Construction work was originally scheduled to start in 2011 and last four years. However, the private sector participation in the form of a public-private partnership was not put out to tender until summer 2013.

Three test rings should be created for the system:

  • Ring 1 with a length of 55 kilometers, including a straight line of nine kilometers in length, which should allow tests of high-speed trains with a speed of up to 520 km / h (other sources mentioned a maximum speed of 450 km / h). The ring should be made in standard gauge .
  • Ring 2 with a length of 20 kilometers should allow speeds of up to 220 km / h. It should have a three-rail track in standard gauge and Iberian broad gauge .
  • Ring 3 with a length of five kilometers was intended to test local trains.

The builder of the facility was the Spanish railway infrastructure operator Adif . The amount of the investments was put at 344 million euros. A citizens' initiative organized protests against the project.

No bids from the private sector were received in response to the 2013 tender; According to the European Commission, there is currently no interest in the development of high-speed vehicles with a top speed of 520 km / h. The project was discontinued when the European funding period expired at the end of 2015. In 2016, the European Commission asked the Spanish government to recall the subsidies already granted from state and European funds amounting to € 140.7 million, as the subsidy was not compatible with Community law.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f José Blanco y Cristina Garmendia presentan el proyecto del mayor anillo ferroviario del mundo (PDF; 91 kB) Press release of the ministerio de Fomento of February 18, 2011
  2. ↑ New rail test ring for Antequera is to go full steam ahead , SURinEnglish.com, April 30, 2013
  3. ↑ Spain to build 450 km / h railway test circuit in: Railway Gazette , December 20, 2010
  4. ↑ http://plataformanoalanillo.blogspot.com/ Plataforma por la Comarca de Antequera NO AL ANILLO
  5. ↑ High speed test center grant must be repaid. In: Railway Gazette . July 26, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Pablo Garciá: Fomento entierra el anillo ferroviario de Málaga al perder la aportación de los fondos comunitarios. March 13, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ COMMISSION DECISION of 25.7.2016 ON THE STATE AID SA.37185 (2015 / C) (ex-2013 / N) which Spain has granted and partially implemented for the funding of the Centro de ensayos de alta tecnología ferroviaria de Antequera (CEATF) . European Commission , July 25, 2016, accessed July 9, 2017 .