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Ouigo goes to CNMC to force a full move from AVE Madrid-Valencia to Chamartín



The change of address on the Madrid-Valencia high-speed line sparked the first major rift between the three rail operators. Ouigo and Iryo pack their bags from Atocha to Chamartín this summer and all of their trains already have the North Station as their destination and departure. But Renfe is still in Atocha. She has reached a framework agreement with Adiv that her move to Chamartín, which will take place on January 23, will be only partial. The agreement, which has yet to be concluded, states that from that date Renfe will maintain four services per day on Atocha, two in each direction. The remainder will go to Chamartin station with the other operators. In exchange for maintaining this activity, Renfe will extend AVE’s trips from Atocha to Castellón and the four services will stop in Cuenca and Requena. In practice, this will cause these trains to take longer than those to Chamartin, which do not stop. Other things being equal, the trip to or from Chamartin is about 15 minutes longer than from Atocha. The difference that ignited the spark of Renfe competitors. The fact that the trains that remain in Atocha would stop was not enough for Uigo. As ABC has learned, the French operator has sent a letter to the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) decrying the fact that Renfe will keep four AVE points a day to Valencia in Atocha while the rest of the operators move entirely to Chamartín. Sources from the railway sector explain that the subsidiary SNCF understands that this is a competitive complaint for Renfe’s competitors and also completely changes the conditions in which the railways were liberalized. But from Ouigo, they avoided making statements to this newspaper regarding this conflict. The change of head from Atocha to Chamartín was an assumed issue in the sector which responded to Adif’s need to adapt rail traffic while carrying out expansion works between both stations. But a few months ago the Valencian Generalitat decried the fact that the Madrid-Valencia AVE would take another 15 minutes with this change and the Ministry of Transport had to act and promote a new agreement. Relevant record news Yes the price of low-cost trains does not convince travelers Guillermo Ginés Only half of users are satisfied with the prices, according to the latest house panel of the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) take? Competition sources are limited to indicating that “the institution will soon issue a decision by the council regarding a proposal to amend the framework agreement between Adev and Renvi before it enters into force on January 23.” As reported by ABC, within CNMC a few months ago they did not look favorably on the option of leaving some trains in Atocha precisely because it would provide a competitive advantage for operators who stop at that station. In the sector, they assert that private sector operators have been maneuvering for months to avoid this difference because they realize that this will affect the short term. According to these same sources, Iryo has a similar situation to Ouigo’s, although the letter to the competition only appears signed by the French.

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