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The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, will accompany on Monday, September 17, the delegate of the Government in the Region of Murcia, Diego Conesa, in the commissioning of the hybrid train service between Cartagena and Madrid, which will reduce the time of the journey to about four hours, about 30 minutes less than today.

The first Alvia hybrid train will depart with the mayor and the government delegate at 5:50 in the morning from the station of Víctor Beltrí Cartagena, having planned its stopover at the Carmen station in the city of Murcia about six thirty and ending its journey around ten in the morning hours in Madrid, Puerta de Atocha, in the capital of Spain.

The duration of the trip between Cartagena and Madrid will be reduced again by another half hour in the first quarter of 2019, when the Camarillas variant is scheduled to enter service.

So far the time of this trip with Altaria trains ranged between 4 hours 45 minutes and 5 hours 15 minutes.

For its part, the return journey will depart from Atocha at 4.40 pm, its arrival in Cartagena being scheduled at nine o'clock at night.

HYBRID TRAINS

Hybrid trains of the 730 series are versatile vehicles that can circulate indistinctly by the international width lines and by the conventional width using the shaft exchanger installed in the Albacete Los Llanos station, which allows the connection between both infrastructures.

The hybrid train has both diesel and electric traction technology, which allows the advantages of high speed to be extended to non-electrified sections, with a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour.

For its part, the train Altaria has the series 334, a series of diesel-electric locomotives built by Vossloh under its commercial model Euro 3000 and are designed to transport passengers at 200 kilometers per hour by conventional lines without electrification.

As for prices, the launch of the Alvia starts with a promotion of 40 euros round trip from Cartagena, being the normal price without discounts of 55.6 euros.

For its part, the Altaria train has rates ranging between 35.9 and 55.5 euros on the round trip from the port city.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena