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Cercanías Cádiz
Elevated tracks in Jerez de la Frontera
Elevated tracks in Jerez de la Frontera
Overview
Owner Renfe
Locale Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera
Transit type Commuter rail
Number of lines2
Number of stations13
Annual ridership2.667 million (2018) [1]
Operation
Operator(s) Cercanías
Technical
System length61 km (38 mi)

Cercanías Cádiz is the commuter rail service in the cities of Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia, Spain. The service consists of two lines of 14 stations over 61 km of track, serving 2.8 million passengers a year.

History

Suburban trains began service in Cádiz in the 1980s. In 2000, work began to place the railway line leading into Cádiz underground to enable double-tracking and create a new linear park in the city. [2] During this work, Cádiz railway station was temporarily closed with Cortadura serving as a terminus in the meantime. In 2002 the work was completed, with the reopening of Cádiz station and new underground stations San Severiano, Segunda Aguada and Estadio; spaced apart at a distance resembling a metro.

Route

The service mainly uses the Alcázar de San Juan–Cádiz main line, with a branch to the University of Cádiz from Las Aletas. The section of track between Cádiz railway station and Cortadura station was doubled and put underground in 2001, with the opening of new underground stations at San Severiano, Segunda Aguada and Estadio.

Cercanías Cádiz route map

Stations

Las Aletas station in Puerto Real.

Of the thirteen stations on the network, the busiest in 2018 was Jerez de la Frontera with 592,000 passengers, followed by Cádiz and San Fernando (350,000 passengers each), El Puerto de Santa María (297,000), Bahía Sur (288,000) and Puerto Real (240,000). [1]

line route km
Cádiz - Aeropuerto de Jerez 58
Las Aletas - Universidad 2,4
station line services zone locality
Aeropuerto de Jerez 5 Jerez de la Frontera
Cádiz 1 Cádiz
Cortadura 1 Cádiz
El Puerto de Santa María 4 El Puerto de Santa María
Estadio 1 Cádiz
Jerez de la Frontera 5 Jerez de la Frontera
Las Aletas 3 Puerto Real
Puerto Real 3 Puerto Real
Río Arillo 2 San Fernando
San Fernando-Centro 2 San Fernando
San Fernando-Bahía Sur 2 San Fernando
San Severiano 1 Cádiz
Segunda Aguada 1 Cádiz
Universidad 3 Puerto Real

Future development

The construction of the La Pepa Station in Jerez will start soon.[ citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "-Casi veintidós millones de viajeros utilizaron los trenes de Cercanías de Andalucía en 2018". www.vialibre-Fife.com (in Spanish). 8 February 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Las otras grandes obras que transformaron Cádiz". La Voz de Cádiz (in Spanish). 28 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2019.