Cercanías Asturias

Cercanías Asturias
C-4 train at Pravia.
Overview
OwnerAdif
LocaleAsturias
Transit typeCommuter rail
Number of lines9
Daily ridership28,888 [1]
Annual ridership10,544,100
WebsiteWebsite
Operation
Operator(s)Renfe Operadora
Technical
Track gauge1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in)
(3 lines)
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
(6 lines)

Cercanías Asturias is a commuter rail service operating in Autonomous Community of Asturias, mainly in the central area of the region.

History

During the second half of the 20th century, Renfe operated several services on all the Iberian-gauge lines and circulated as suburban trains. They were popularly known as "cercanías", but Renfe did not have a specific structure for them.[2] This changed in the 80s when the company began plans to create a defined and organised service, which was inaugurated in 1989.[3][4]

At first they were divided into C-1 (Puente de los Fierros-Gijón), C-2 (Oviedo-El Entrego), C-3 (Trubia-Oviedo) and C-4 (Oviedo-Avilés) services.[5][6][7] Nevertheless, in 1999, as part of an urbanistic project called the Green Belt, the Fuso de la Reina branch to Oviedo was closed and the former Iberian-gauge C-3 line (Oviedo-Trubia railway line) was converted into narrow-gauge.[8]

In 2013, after the merger of Feve with Renfe, its six metric-gauge lines came to be operated by Renfe Feve (renamed as Cercanías AM in 2021). Since 2023, all nine lines were unified under Cercanías, and payments with Conecta, an Asturian fare card valid for all the means of transport under the umbrella of the Asturian Consortium of Transportation, were enabled.[9][10] Since 2024, tickets can be paid by credit card.[11]

Lines

Line Route Stations
Puente de los Fierros – Gijón 27
Oviedo – El Entrego 13
Llamaquique – Avilés 14
Gijón – Cudillero 33
Gijón – La Pola de Llaviana/Pola de Laviana 26
Gijón – Oviedo 6
Oviedo – L'Infiestu 20
Oviedo – San Esteban 21
Baíña – Coḷḷanzo 18

Fare system

Cercanías Asturias is integrated into the Asturias Consortium of Transportation Fare system, which is applied when using Conecta.[12] Furthermore, this service has its own fare system for one-way tickets.[13] The CONECTA system is also valid in Asturian stations outside the hub, and has its own zonal map.

Zones travelled Fare

(Conecta)

 Fare

(Regular)

1 €0.45 €1.65
2 €0.72 €1.95
3 €1.05 €2.65
4 €1.40 €3.30

Usage

The following graph shows the number of tickets validated per year. Data for 1993 is not available. Data from 2023 on is joint.[14]

030006000900012,00015,000199019962002200820142020Lines with Iberian gauge (C-1, C-2, C-3)Lines with metric gauge (C-4f, C-5f, C-6f, C-7f, C-8f)All lines
Number of tickets validated per year (in thousands). View chart definition.

Rolling stock

Iberian-gauge stock

Metric-gauge stock

Network Lines

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Número de pasajeros de ferrocarril según tipo de red". Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Página 2 del 17 de febrero de 1973 Gijon - El Comercio. Resultados de publicación de la hemeroteca histórica de El Comercio - www.elcomercio.es". hemeroteca.elcomercio.es. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  3. ↑ Sáenz López, V. M. (1998). RENFE, en el camino de la calidad total. Destino la excelencia. Ferroviaria '98 (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Edición del sábado, 22 marzo 1980, página 4 - Hemeroteca - Lavanguardia.es". 26 October 2018. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  5. ↑ "Cercanías: el metro de Asturias". hemeroteca.elcomercio.es. 10 May 1999. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  6. ↑ "Trabajadores de Santa Bárbara incendian una unidad de RENFE en Trubia". hemeroteca.elcomercio.es. 30 April 1994. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "Renfe Cercanías se consolida como el metro puntual y cómodo". hemeroteca.elcomercio.es. 28 March 1998. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  8. ↑ Díaz-Rubín, Gonzalo (14 June 2018). "Cinturón Verde, 15 años sin tren". El Comercio: Diario de Asturias (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  9. ↑ Saucedo, Óscar-Rubén Morales (13 July 2023). "La integración tarifaria de Renfe llega a Asturias: ¿qué es? ¿qué incluye? ¿bajan los precios?". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  10. ↑ C, J. A. (27 July 2023). "Conecta, una tarjeta que unifica todos los medios de transporte". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Cercanías de Asturias implantará desde el lunes el pago con tarjeta bancaria sin contacto". La Voz de Asturias (in Spanish). 25 October 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  12. ↑ "¿Cuánto cuesta viajar? - Consorcio de Transportes de Asturias". www.ctaconecta.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  13. ↑ "Cercanías de Asturias ( Billetes, Precios, +Renfe y Tú ) | Renfe". www.renfe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  14. ↑ "Número de pasajeros de ferrocarril según tipo de red". Sociedad Asturiana de Estudios Económicos (SADEI) (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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