The first 80 machinists and traffic managers of the Mayan Train are finishing their “ad hoc” international training in Spainalmost a month after the start of operations of the great railway bet of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for the southeast of the country.
The training has been carried out by the Spanish railway safety agency, Renfe, which has designed an exclusive training program for the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), of 850 hours for a total of 50 train drivers and 30 traffic controllers.
Renfe detailed that training for members of the Mexican Armed Forces has been carried out between different groups since January 2023, while the Mayan Train has already added two supervision tours in which López Obrador and members of his cabinet have participated.
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This training program is carried out at different locations: in Mexico City, at the Renfe training center, in the Spanish city of Malaga, and with driving practices on board Renfe trains in Spain.
The final phase of the training will take place on the ground, in the vehicles and routes of the Mayan Train, Renfe said.
The most recent promotion of aspiring machinists arrived in Spain last Augustafter two months of theoretical training in Mexico City.
For this first phase, Renfe, heir to the former National Network of Spanish Railways, sent four experienced trainers to the Mexican capital to deal with theoretical training in this program.
After a week in Madrid, aspiring train drivers are completing the next phase of the program at the Renfe Training Center in Malagaa headquarters that debuted precisely with this training project for Mexico, with the first class of machinists of the Mayan Train, which ended its program in July 2023,” Renfe detailed.
At the Malaga training center, the second class has completed one more month of theoretical training and has recently begun three months of practical training, in driving simulators and on board different models of Renfe trains.
To become familiar with the vehicles and systems similar to those they will have on the Mayan Train, Mexicans will have their internships aboard Civia on the Málaga Cercanías network and AVE trains on trips to Madrid, Granada or Córdoba.
Mexicans in this program will receive certificates with updated content on the specific content that ultimately regulates railway circulation in the Mayan Train Project, such as the Regulatory Regulations for Circulation, knowledge about the vehicle, knowledge about the infrastructure and those specific procedures that must be applied for commissioning and commercial operation.
Of the 30 traffic managers, the students began their training on August 28 in Mexico City and traveled this month to complete their training cycle this November.
At the beginning of October, the second supervision tour for the Mayan Train was carried out, while López Obrador has announced its inauguration next December.
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