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Euskal Trenbide Sarea

Railway infrastructure manager in the Basque Country, Spain

Euskal Trenbide Sarea/Red Ferroviaria Vasca

Company type	Government-owned
Founded	21 May 2004^[1]a
Headquarters	8 San Vicente Street, Bilbao, Biscay , Spain
Area served	Basque Country
Key people	Ernesto Martínez de Cabredo (CEO)
Owner	Basque Government
Number of employees	274^[2] (2019)
Website	www.ets-rfv.euskadi.eus/inicio/

Euskal Trenbide Sarea (Basque for 'Basque Railway Network', Spanish: Red Ferroviaria Vasca), commonly known by its acronym ETS, is a railway infrastructure manager operating in the Basque Country, Spain. The company was formed in 2004, but the railway infrastructure it operates was transferred from Euskotren in 2006.^[3] It is a member of the International Union of Railways.^[4]

The company owns the network in which Euskotren operates (including the Irauregi–Lutxana and Ariz–Basurto freight lines^[5]), as well as the infrastructure of the Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz tram systems.^[6] It also shares the ownership of lines 1 and 2 of the Bilbao metro with the Biscay Transport Consortium [es].^{[citation needed]} The company is also building the Gipuzkoan branch of the Basque Y high-speed line under an agreement with ADIF.^[7]

References

^ "de Red Ferroviaria Vasca-Euskal Trenbide Sarea". Ley No. 6/2004 of 21 May 2004 (in Spanish). Vol. 103. Retrieved 5 June 2022 – via BOPV. Archived 5 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Organización y equipo humano". Euskal Trenbide Sarea (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 June 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ Euskal Trenbide Sarea - Memoria 2019 (PDF). euskadi.eus (Report) (in Spanish). p. 138. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ "Vademecum". UIC. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ "El Gobierno central transferirá en 2018 las 2 primeras líneas de tren que pide Euskadi". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). EFE. 18 July 2017. Archived from the original on 21 July 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ "Nuestra red". Euskal Trenbide Sarea (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 June 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ Izarra, Josean (5 January 2022). "El Gobierno vasco concluirá en enero de 2024 con 1.960 millones de inversión el tramo guipuzcoano de la 'Y'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 January 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.