With this volume of the
collection “Monografías del Ferrocarril ” it is given beginning
to a series on the Units of train and electrical autorails, which in
this first book deals with the
"Swiss" units of
Renfe's
train.
The “Units of train ”
(briefly U.T.) of
Renfe's Swiss origin they were one of
the fundamental props in the electrifications to 3.000 volts of the
sixties and seventies. These trains were included in the series 600,
700 and 800, later registered according to the International Union
of Railroads (UIC) as series 436,
437, 438 and 435. They were destined in Asturias and Cantabria,
though most of his workforce was in Catalonia and were protagonists
of the displacements for a generation of workers, familiar trips or
of trippers in metropolitan areas and also of wide rural zones. In
some occasions the trip could offer a magnificent inducement: To
enjoy the sight in a viewing-point favoured in the cars without
reforming of the series WM and in the
tows WRc. In these cars the travelers
could occupy the seats and the space placed next to the cabin of the
machinist.
When advance the electrifications of Renfe's
network in direction Valencia, Lleida
and Saragossa, the U.T. Swisses were
dispersing to other destinations of initials. With the arrival from
middle of the seventies of the new units of train of the series 440
the redistribution of the Swisses hastened furthermore, coming to
Andalusia, Valencia, The Spot and Madrid.
The renovations effected in the series were significant, so much for
the restructuring in the format of the trains like for the
substitution of his exterior and interior aspect: From the
decoration plata/verde to the yellow
/ blue one of the 80s, up to coming to the integral reform in the
nineties (The "New" series 435).
In
rest of the history already we know her: The impressive conversion
of the service of Renfe's
surroundings with the units of the series 446/7 and 450/1 and the
reform of the series 440 did not leave place the Swisses, and the
last trains of the series stopped circulating at the end of the year
1994. A page was closed this way of more than 35 years of a history
that, with the technology of the moment, transported million persons
both in the areas of surroundings and in the regional rail links. |
