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Contact
For further information, please contact Neil Walker, Exports Director at the Railway Industry Association, or Isaac Morillas – Trade Advisor, DBT Spain.
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Programme (draft)
Tuesday 13 June
Delegates to make their way to Bilbao (there are direct flights from London and Manchester)
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20:30 – 23:00
Welcome dinner with local contacts TBC
Wednesday 14 June
Transport to Beasain (CAF HQ) for 1 to 1 meetings. Meetings with Euskal Trenbide Sarea will also be held at CAF’s premises.
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08:00 – 09:15
Transport to Beasain (provided by organisation)
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09:30 – 12:30
1 to 1 meetings
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12:30 – 14:00
Transport to Bilbao airport (provided by organisation)
Flight to Madrid
Thursday 15 June
Delegates to make their way to the British Embassy where 1 to 1 meetings will take place.
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09:00 – 12:00
1 to 1 meetings with Talgo, Alstom and ADIF
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12:30 – 13:30
Site visit TBC
End of programme
Local companies’ profiles
ADIF is a public company under the umbrella of the Ministry of Transport with responsibility for the construction, operation and management of the Spanish national rail network (c.18,000 km) including stations (1,451), freight terminals (38 main ones) and electric substations (341). The network comprises 3 types of width mainly: high-speed (c.4,000 km), Iberian (12,000) and narrow gauge (1,192 km). Nearly 12,000 km of the network are electrified. Main projects include the completion of the North West and North East high-speed lines, the West high-speed line that will link with the Portuguese high-speed line to Lisbon-Porto-Spanish border, and the Mediterranean corridor.
ALSTOM have designed and manufactured high-speed and regional trains in Spain for over 150 years. High-capacity metro rolling stock and tramways are also part of their portfolio. They have industrial capability in Barcelona and the Basque Country, plus an innovation and digital mobility excellence centre in Madrid. As part of the latter, they supply electrification and signalling systems, and related superstructure products. Alstom also provide maintenance services for their portfolio. In the current mission, they participate both as a manufacturer of rolling stock and as infrastructure and superstructure.
CAF is a manufacturer of transport systems that include conventional, light-rail, trams and locomotives, wheelsets and traction systems, in the rolling stock side, and signalling and communication systems in the infrastructure and superstructure side. They also include maintenance for the above in their portfolio. In-house developments include VHS OARIS and URBOS catenary-less trams with greentech. In Europe, they have factories in Spain, France and the UK (Newport, Wales), with others in the USA, Mexico and Brazil further afield. As in the case of Alstom above, they participate in the mission both manufacturer of rolling stock, and infrastructure and superstructure systems.
EUSKAL TRENBIDE SAREA owns a devolved responsibility for managing the rail network in the Basque region since 2004, when ETS was created. Such responsibility includes the construction, maintenance, management, and operation of the network, which is formed by c.200 km commuters, metro and light-rail and tram, and 81 stations.
TALGO are headquartered in Madrid, Talgo specialises in the manufacturing of conventional and high-speed rolling stock. Recently, they seek to diversify their portfolio and are in the process of designing light-rail vehicles. They have manufacturing plants in Madrid and the Basque Country, where their origin is. Internationally, they have presence in some 10 countries, including the UK, but their products and services (maintenance) can be found in over 40 countries. Their main international success is perhaps the Meca-Medina contract and, more recently the Deutsche Bahn one. Technologically, their natural tilting and independent-rotation self-guiding wheels make them unique, allowing them to manufacture longer, wider, uniformly-low cars.