The last pending line of the AVE to Galicia will enter service without a maintenance contract

On

the circle of high speed to

. The new section between

, the last slope on the line from Madrid,

will enter into service

. It will come just ten years after

, as

, opened the first Galician high-speed line. Another socialist minister,

, will achieve this milestone that, however, arrives surrounded by shadows, as it will enter service without a maintenance contract for the catenary, the overhead contact line.

Adif

has a bidding process underway for a contract to provide "preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance" services for the energy facilities of this new section and also of the

of this same line and of the

. However, it is still being processed and sources familiar with the sector have confirmed to EL MUNDO that it will be impossible for it to enter service before the premiere.

Its award "will come a month after going into operation," Adif acknowledged to this newspaper, although it guarantees that maintenance "is guaranteed" because the construction contract for this section "carries a pre-maintenance" that "covers preventive maintenance" , which refers to the jobs that are done in an ordinary way. In the event of a breakdown or if corrective maintenance is necessary, they ensure that it would be covered "with the collateral contracts in force", such as, for example, that of the previous section,

.

Adif guarantees that "everything is completely covered, both preventive and corrective maintenance", although it did make an attempt to correct this delay. In September, it put out to tender a second contract for the temporary maintenance services of the catenary facilities of the Pedralba - Ourense section. The previous one was tendered by Adif High Speed ​​and reaches an

and this corresponds to Adif and remains at

and

.

The public tender has been declared void, so that a commissioning of the line has been approved without an operational maintenance contract. The importance of the contract is revealed by Adif himself in the tender dossier, ensuring that for railway operation "to be carried out with due security and regularity guarantees", it is "essential" to maintain the electrification facilities "with efficiency criteria" .

On

the tenders were opened with a single offer and sources from the railway sector indicate that, for the workers to be already on the railway section, it would be, in the best of cases, two months.

Meanwhile, yesterday the Minister of Transport toured the section together with the presidents of

and

,

and

The line, which involved an

, arrives

than the first date that was managed for the arrival of high speed to the community.

The first stone of the Galician AVE was laid in 2001.

On the occasion of this test trip,

victims of the Alvia accident that

derailed on the outskirts of Santiago

in

came to the

and

stations

with

. They gave Raquel Sánchez,

and

a letter in which they asked if, before "giving propaganda and touring the new section,"

"

The judicial investigation into the accident did not call into question any political decision, but it did call into question a technical one, especially one adopted under the mandate of Blanco: change the project and leave the road on the curve in which it derailed without protection from the European safety system ERTMS. the Alvia, which some technicians attribute to the rush to inaugurate the line.

Years later, the former minister denied it: "in no case did the election time mark the commissioning."

For this accident

,

,

the

, and the

will sit on the bench

at the time the line is put into operation

.

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