Overview

• Renfe has activated a large road replacement plan with about 43,500 daily seats, roughly 107 buses on 639 runs, and hubs at Barcelona’s Fabra i Puig and Centelles including direct services to La Garriga, Centelles and Vic.
• Around 90 trained information staff are deployed at affected stations to guide passengers through the new routines in the first days.
• On the eve of the shutdown, catenary and electrification faults halted trains and triggered the FERROCAT prealert, prompting emergency bus substitutions.
• Phase one suspends service from L’Hospitalet to La Garriga through May 2026, with riders south of Montcada directed to the R4, before a reduced cut between Mollet Santa Rosa and La Garriga runs to January 2027.
• Renfe estimates average journeys will lengthen by roughly 20 to 30 minutes, with about 20,000 to 21,000 daily users directly affected.