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Ouigo España is not the only open-access operator active in the Spanish market; in addition to competing the Spanish state-owned railway company Renfe's budget high speed Avlo service, which began service in June 2021, it also faces Iryo (owned by Air Nostrum and Trenitalia), which commenced operations in late 2022.
Iryo is the brand of Intermodalidad de Levante S.A. (ILSA), a private high-speed rail operator in Spain.The company is jointly owned by the Italian state-owned railway company Trenitalia (51%), the Spanish regional airline Air Nostrum (25%), and the Spanish infrastructure investment fund Globalvia (24%).
In most trains there's free or open seating. In case one can make seat reservations, train seating plans or train seat maps [2] are provided in computer reservation systems to allow future train passengers to select their seat, usually an aisle seat or window seat.
Renfe (Spanish pronunciation:, Eastern Catalan:), officially Renfe-Operadora, is Spain's national state-owned railway company. [ 3 ] It was created in 2005 upon the split of the former Spanish National Railway Network (RENFE) into the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), which inherited the infrastructure, and Renfe-Operadora ...
The Renfe Class 102 or S-102 [note 1] (nicknamed "Pato" in Spanish, because of its nose that looks like the beak of a duck) is a high-speed train used for the AVE service and operated in Spain by the state-run railway company Renfe, and based on Bombardier Transportation's power car technology.
Total railway length in 2020 was 15,489 km (9,953 km electrified). [2] The Spanish high-speed rail network is the longest HSR network in Europe with 3,966 km (2,464 mi) and the second longest in the world, after China's. [3] [4] Most railways are operated by Renfe; metre and narrow-gauge lines are operated by the Renfe Cercanías AM division.
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The units are 6 car compositions featuring both 1-floor and 2-floor passenger cars (the latter being the 2 middle cars). The units are 100 meters in length, have a top speed of 140 km/h and capacity for 905 passengers. The trains feature two train protection systems, ASFA and ETCS. [56]