Renfe y Ouigo will start selling tickets this Monday at 2:00 p.m. to travel in AVE between Madrid and Valencia from next Thursday.on the line that has remained closed to traffic since the DANA which devastated the province of Valencia on October 29th. Circulation paralyzed since then also for the third high-speed operator, IryoThe new track will be restored two weeks and two days after the torrential rains and after Adif workers have worked tirelessly to rebuild and condition the tracks.
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puentehas announced through the X network that ticket sales are resuming for “Thursday, November 14 onwards”. “On that day normal service will be resumed as usual.“he added. Ouigo sources have also confirmed that they are selling tickets again.
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At 14:00 today @Renfe puts on sale the tickets for the Madrid-Valencia high speed line, from Thursday 14/11/24 onwards. On that day the usual service will resume normally. The images of 11 days ago are now just history. pic.twitter.com/tDtS80Nowm
– Oscar Puente (@oscar_puente_). November 11, 2024
Finally, the restoration of the High Speed line between Madrid and Valencia has been possible within the deadline of “no less than two or three weeks”, which after came closer to two weeks more than three, which Puente himself gave two days after the DANA, in a press conference in which he painted a bleak picture regarding the communication routes within and towards the province of Valencia, which also affected the AVE line.
Specifically, the balance of the torrential rains was the total “disappearance” of 1.2 kilometers of track at the height of Chiva of another two kilometers of another tunnel that had been flooded at the height of Torrent. In the following days it was confirmed that the section of track would have to be completely redone and that, once all the water in the Torrent tunnel had been drained, expectations were more positive at this point. As Puente has not tired of spreading by the network X, Adif operators have been working in three shifts to try to condition the tracks in the shortest possible time. The result is that this Thursday the high-speed trains will run again on the line between Madrid and Chamartín.