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The veteran railway line Valencia-Cuenca-Madrid It is now three years since the storm Filomena (which turned the Iberian Peninsula white from January 6 to 11, 2020) silenced his journey from Utiel to Cuenca. He The last Utiel-Cuenca train circulated on January 8, 2021. Was the first blow to this battered railway that suffered the second blow on July 19, 2021, when the last journey between Cuenca and Aranjuez was made. And to which the Ministry of Transport gave the touch of grace by approving the definitive closure in February 2023.

The line through Cuenca requires 319 million to be able to transport goods

«The Aranjuez-Utiel line cannot provide a satisfactory response to the mobility needs of citizens», concluded the Ministry of Transport, when it was directed by Raquel Sánchez, to justify the closure of the line. He The central government even presented in Cuenca the project to completely dismantle the line to convert the Cuenca-Utiel and Cuenca-Tarancón section into a greenway.redevelop the land that the train would abandon in the Cuenca city and the promise of providing on-demand bus service to the small municipalities that are left without train service.

The residents of Camporrobles ‘camp’ at the train station to protest the closure of the line

A proposal that the Supreme Court stopped dead when admit for processing the contentious-administrative appeal presented by the municipalities of Aranjuez, Arguisuelas, Camporrobles, Cañada del Hoyo, Carboneras, Castillejo del Romeral, Huete, Santa Cruz de la Zarza, Víllora and Yémedaten of the veighty-three municipalities that have been left without rail service, even if it was precarious. Two of them are Valencian: Camporrobles and Las Cuevas, a village in Utiel.

City councils and associations gather in Utiel against the cessation of the conventional train to Cuenca

The ten municipalities have achieved that the third section of the contentious-administrative chamber of the Supreme Court adopted on June 26, 2023 the precautionary suspension of the agreement of the Council of Ministers of February 21, 2023 that closed the Utiel-Aranjuez railway section of line 03-310 Aranjuez-Valencia-Font de Sant Lluís. A measure that The State Attorney’s Office, the Cuenca City Council (late) and the Cuenca Provincial Council appealed that are in favor of the dismantling of the railway line to carry out the planned urban planning action.

The (railway) crime of Cuenca

Some allegations that the Supreme Court rejected, according to the order issued on November 30, to which it has had access Levante-EMV. The High Court maintains the precautionary suspension of the closure of the line due to the “possible irreparable or irreversible damages derived from the execution of the agreement [del Consejo de Ministros] which decides the closure of the railway section of the reviewed section of the Aranjuez-Valencia Font de Sant Lluís railway line”.

Protest in València and Aranjuez against the closure of the railway line with Cuenca

And he points out that «It is clear that carrying out the actions entailed by the contested agreement may determine the loss of the legitimate purpose of the appeal since, in the event that a ruling is issued upholding the claims of the appelling corporations, a situation of material impossibility of the appeal may arise. resumption of rail service object of the appeal” if they are dismantled of “all or part of the infrastructure necessary for the provision of the service.”

Camporrobles and the associations rescue a 2014 project so that line C3 reaches the municipality

Investments in a decade

The Supreme Court, in addition, required both the Ministry of Finance and the public companies Adif and Renfe to provide the investments made on the line, in the rolling stock (the trains) “from 2012 to the last budgeted year”in addition to reporting on «the changes that have occurred (transfer of work center, closure of work centers, or any other modification) in the employment relationship of the personnel who provided service on the railway line 03- 310 Aranjuez –València Font de Sant Lluís».

The Ministry of Transport announces the definitive closure of the railway line from Utiel to Tarancón

During all this time of railway lock, The residents of Camporrobles (1,198 inhabitants registered in 2020) have gathered on the 7th of each month since March 2021 to demand the reopening of the line. Tomorrow, Sunday, they will gather again at the Camporrobles station, starting at 5:30 p.m., with candles, to remember the “three years without a train” so they will observe three minutes of silence. «Let us not forget that in towns with depopulation we cannot lose public services. We have roads. We want Cercanías and we want the train», recalls Juan Ramón Ferrandis, general secretary of the CGT-PV union.

Requiem for the historical line to Cuenca that will not turn 75 years old

2024-01-06 06:03:31
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