EuskoTren
EuskoTren stands for Eusko Trenbideak - Ferrocarriles Vascos, SA and is a public railway company in the Spanish Basque Country .
business
It is 100% owned by the Basque provincial government and was founded in 1982 . EuskoTren also operates a number of long-distance bus connections and the tram networks in Bilbao and Vitoria . These operate under the name EuskoTran. In 1995 a part of the railway including its staff was transferred to the Metro Bilbao .
EuskoTren has an electrified narrow-gauge network on which it operates the S-Bahn traffic around Bilbao and San Sebastián and between these cities. Both cities have tunnel sections in the inner city area, which serve as trunk lines for the S-Bahn. The state railway RENFE complements the S-Bahn network with a broad gauge infrastructure.
The rail network of EuskoTren once belonged to the railway company FEVE , which operates a narrow gauge network over 1000 km long in the north of Spain. EuskoTren came about after FEVE sold part of its rail network. The EuskoTren and FEVE networks continue to be interconnected to allow freight traffic between the Basque Country and mining sites in Asturias . However, this is a single-track line in poor condition that gives a wide berth to the city of Bilbao. There is no cross-network passenger traffic, although this route is to serve as a crossbar after renovation to enable a change between the regional train lines outside the city center of Bilbao.
EuskoTren is currently planning the construction of a new headquarters including an underground train station in Durango in the province of Vizcaya . A total of around 150–160 million euros is to be invested in the “Operación Durango” construction project. The well-known architect Zaha Hadid , who has since passed away, won the international tender for the construction .
Lines
All FEVE routes east of Bilbao were transferred to the company EuskoTren for the establishment and a new dead end station was set up in the old town. The only long-distance connection to San Sebastián starts there , which is run as line 1 . This line forms the main line of the network, with individual regional train lines running on branch lines. In addition to the trains that run on the main route from Bilbao to San Sebastian, there are sections of additional traffic with the numbers 1D and 1K. The EuskoTran tram, which runs through the city center, starts from the terminus in Bilbao .
Not connected to the rest of the network, line 4 runs completely isolated from Lezama to Bilbao, where it ends in the old town in the tunnel. There are plans for this line to be converted into a subway , whereby the existing tunnel is to merge with the Bilbao Metro line in the future .
In the Basque city of Eibar , the company also operates a railway line that is marketed as a “tram”, but is not run under the name EuskoTran .
A steam-powered museum train runs between Lasao and Azpeitia on a partially disused route. The Basque Railway Museum is also located there.
The following lines exist:
| No. | route |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bilbao - Donostia-San Sebastián |
| 1D | Bilbao - Ermua |
| 1K | Ermua - Donostia / San Sebastián |
| 1T | Eibar tram |
| 2 | Hendaye (France) - Irun - Donostia / San Sebastián - Lasarte-Oria (Metro Donostialdea) |
| 3 | Kukullaga / Etxebarri - Matiko - Lezama |
| 4th | Bilbao - Bermeo |
| 5 | Funicular Funicular de Larreineta |
| 6th | Museum Railway Azpeitia - Lasao |
| 7th | Bilbao tram |
| Vitoria tram |
Because of the fourteen tunnels between Irun and San Sebastian, this route and the trains that run there are nicknamed "El Topo" (The Mole).
Web links
- EuskoTren (Spanish / Basque)
Remarks
- ↑ EuskoTran is a combination of EuskoTren and tranbia / tranvía , the Basque-Spanish name for tram.
Individual evidence
- ↑ El Topo cumple 100 años from Trenak Express (Spanish), accessed on March 7, 2014
- ↑ Ferrocarril Eléctrico de San Sebastián a la frontera ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spanishrailway.com (Spanish), accessed March 7, 2014
