Low-cost, high-speed train (AVE) operator Ouigo has been granted provisional authorisation to provide service on the Madrid-Elche-Murcia line, foreseeably in the first half of next year.
The company, part of France’s state-owned railway group SNCF, reported that they expect to receive definitive authorisation from state rail infrastructure company Adif in October, should nothing change as this is merely a technical procedure.
Ouigo will now start tests to convert its trains to the specifications of the line.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News
