2023-12-23 00:00:00
(22/12/2023)
The Stop, Look, Read’ initiative arrives on the Zaragoza tram at Christmas
The books arrive on the Zaragoza Tram with the initiative ‘stop, look, read’. Its stops have been transformed into a library so that users of this public service can borrow a book to enjoy both on the journey and at home. This initiative, promoted by the Board of Libraries and Education, was launched this Tuesday and will continue until January 8. ‘Stop, Look, Read’ whose motto for this campaign is Read, the best gift will bring a total of 1,500 books, specially selected by City Council librarians at five double stops on the city’s trams where reading points will be installed. informal.
Circulations of the Christmas Train in Madrid
The Spanish Railways Foundation puts the Christmas Train into circulation from December 26 to January 5, except on December 31 and January 1, offering three daily trips. This historic train is made up of wooden cars from more than a century ago, the usual Costa Cars of the Tren de la Fresa, which leaves from the Madrid Railway Museum and runs through part of the Madrid railway network in a one-hour trip. approximately duration. On board the train you will enjoy an entertainment show designed especially for a family audience. In addition, there will be the company of the Royal Page who will collect the letters they want to send to Their Majesties of the East. On January 5, the train will have the Three Wise Men themselves, accompanied by their Pages.
Christmas activities at the Catalua Railway Museum
The Railway Museum of Catalonia has scheduled a wide agenda of activities during the Christmas season. Among them and commented visits, departures from ‘La Matar’ to live the experience of climbing into the cabin of the first steam locomotive that circulated in the country. There will also be other family activities for these vacation days. The museum will be closed from December 19 to 26 (inclusive) and December 31, January 1 and 6.
Exhibition ‘The first Spanish Iron Road’, at the Madrid Railway Museum
The Madrid Railway Museum hosts, until January 11, on the central platform the exhibition ‘The First Spanish Iron Road’, on the construction of the first railway in Spain and Latin America: the line from Havana to Gines, in Cuba, then Spanish overseas territory. The new exhibition includes images of that pioneering line taken by the photographer José Gómez de La Carrera, belonging to the Mur Collection, along with engravings from the Díaz-Guerra Collection, which is kept by the Spanish Railways Foundation.
The exhibition ‘Revealing the Railway’ at the Madrid Railway Museum
This exhibition has been made with the funds from the photographic archive of the MZA company that Renfe donated to the Madrid Railway Museum in 1985. The exhibition constitutes a photographic profile of the train in Spain between the decades of 1910 and 1940 and includes the images taken by Juan Salgado Lancha, Madrid photographer for the MZA company who, after nationalization, joined the Renfe payroll until 1946. The most repeated theme of his photography was the replacement and renewal works of bridges, and to a lesser extent, stations, rolling stock, commemorations. and royal visits. Remain open until November 3, 2024.
Special Western Light Metro schedules for the Christmas holidays
Metro Ligero Oeste modifies the schedules and frequencies of its services during the Christmas holidays. From December 26, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the trains will run at their usual schedule, -from 6 in the morning to 1:30 a.m. on weekdays, while on the most important days such as the 24th and December 25 and January 1, 2024, the hours will be from 6:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., from 8 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. and from 7 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., respectively. In relation to the frequency of passage, between 6:00 and 7:00 in the morning it will be ten minutes, from 7:00 to 10:00 every 6 minutes and between 10:00 and 20:00 every 10 minutes. . From 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. the frequency will be every 1:30 p.m. until the end of the service at 1:30 a.m.
Granada Metro extends schedules and frequencies during the Christmas holidays
Granada Metro extends schedules and increases frequencies for the Christmas holidays. This special device extends until January 6, and highlights the uninterrupted service for New Year’s Eve, with only the interruption of the service from 9:15 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. to attend to the family conciliation of metro workers. On the day of the Three Kings Parade, as it is the eve of a holiday, it will circulate until two in the morning, reinforcing the passage interval during the departure and route times of the parades.
The FGC service is adapted to the Christmas and New Year holidays
FGC will modify the service end times on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. On Sunday, December 24, Christmas Eve, the train service will end at 11:00 p.m. on all lines. On Christmas Day the trains will run until 2:00 a.m. while, on San Esteban, they will run until 12:00 a.m. FGC offer uninterrupted service on New Year’s Eve.
Modification of Euskotren services for Christmas
Euskotren will modify its services on December 24, 25, 31 and January 1. On the nights of December 24 and 31, Euskotren will bring forward the end of its services on all its railway, tram and funicular lines. Likewise, delay the start of the service in the morning on December 25 and January 1 and interrupt it at noon. The service will operate normally from approximately 5:00 p.m.
Cercanas de Catalua adapts its service during the vacation period in video
Renfe reschedules the R7 suburban services in Catalonia between December 23 and January 7, 2024, both included. During these days, trains will not run on the R7 between Cerdanyola Universitat and Barcelona-Fabra i Puig and vice versa. On the other hand, four circulations of the line are maintained in each direction between Molins de Rei-Fabra and Puig-Montcada Bifurcaci as reinforcement of line R4. On the other hand, during the afternoon and evening of December 24, and the early morning hours of Christmas Day, services will be generally reduced on all lines.
Special services for Christmas weekends on the Tenerife tram
Metrotenerife has activated its special Christmas service plan with reinforcements for the weekends in December. Thus, Line 1 will be circulating with frequencies of eight minutes on Saturdays and every ten minutes on Sundays. Likewise, it provides special services for Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and Three Kings’ Eve.
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