Overview
- Renfe’s reworked high-speed plan for Galicia and Castilla y León–Madrid, which took effect Wednesday, shifts departures and redistributes stops, moving the first Madrid departure to a 06:30 Avlo and retiming AVE 4475 and 4565.
- The Lugo–Madrid Alvia 4114 now leaves at 05:18 and keeps its intermediate calls through Galicia and Castilla y León, including Sanabria AV at 08:04 and Zamora at 08:39, to reach Madrid before 10:30.
- The early Vigo–Madrid AVE 4464 departs at 05:50, adds a stop in Santiago de Compostela, and drops its 08:43 Zamora call, leaving that slot in Zamora covered by the earlier Alvia.
- Every Vigo–Madrid journey now exceeds four hours, a change linked to the added Santiago stop and temporary speed limits from maintenance in the Guadarrama tunnel that extend into July and early August.
- Backlash followed the rollout, with protests and letters from the Castilla y León regional government over lost Zamora stops, and Vigo’s mayor Abel Caballero vowing to tell Renfe’s president he rejects the added Santiago call for slowing Vigo’s link.