They are the fastest to unite Russia with any country in Europe

The Public Acquisition Offer (takeover bid) of the company Hungarian Magyar Vagon by the Spanish Talgofor 619 million euros -five euros per share-, continues ahead despite the government discontentwhich with the head of Transport at the helm, Oscar Puenteseeks to torpedo the operation by land, sea and air.

Time passes and the Executive does not convince anyone to execute a counter-oppa to deactivate the Hungarians. Puente has tested Criteriabut the reversing arm of Isidro Faine It is not clear to him, as he has published Vozpópuli.

Why does the Government want to maintain the Spanish nature of Talgo? Puente considers the Spanish railway manufacturer as a company of utmost importance for the country’s interests, and the fact that it has been linked to Magyar with Putin’s Government It is something that set off alarms in Moncloa.

One of the most worrying aspects is the fact that Talgo trains can be modified to be able to travel through any type of road inside and outside the old continent.

“This is a feature that would allow Russia to reach any of its former Soviet republics or any place in Europe in record time,” sources in the sector explain to this newspaper. A capacity that is not foreign to Pedro Sánchez. Above all due to the current international geopolitical situation, with Ukraine and Russia embroiled in a long-term war and the threat that Vladimir Putin will extend the offensive to countries on the old continent. The entry of Magyar will mean the transfer of part of Talgo’s technology to the factories that the corporation owns in Hungary, country bordering Ukraine.

Talgo itself explains the advantages provided by its technology. “The sliding tread It is one of Talgo’s strongest hallmarks. “The automatic gauge change technology, used in thousands of operations since its launch several decades ago, makes our trains the only solution capable of adapting to any railway network, and crossing all borders in a transparent way.”

When railway tracks began to be laid at the beginning of the 19th century, the distance between rails had to be defined. The West opted for the British standard, it was accepted in a good part of the West, but it did not quite stick. Two centuries later, most railway operators are often unable to provide point-to-point service due to gauge differences.

It is a capacity that does not go unnoticed by Pedro Sánchez’s team. Above all due to the current international geopolitical situation, with Ukraine and Russia embroiled in a long-term war and the threat that Vladimir Putin will extend the offensive to countries of the old continent.

“These problems materialize on the border between two neighboring countries, but in some States with non-homogeneous networks, as is the case of Spain, that invisible border It also moves inside. To overcome these barriers there are no other solutions than to adapt the entire infrastructure to a astronomical costor to use trains that are capable of changing gauge automatically,” concludes Renfe.

Talgo: the first manufacturer to use this system

The company, based in Las Rozas (Madrid), is the first manufacturer on the planet to develop these systems, and its technology has been used daily by hundreds of trains from all over the world.

Thus, it allows the width between the wheels to be adapted while the train moves. moves at about 15 km/h, without having to stop. The system is simple, robust, reversible and automatic. It does not matter which direction the train travels when passing through the facility, and it does not matter which direction it travels. “It unloads the weight of the train onto some skids, unlocks each wheel and places it in its new position, then locks it again and finally allows the train to support its weight again and continue rolling,” Talgo concludes.