Requena-Utiel railway station is a railway station serving the

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towns of Requena and

Utiel Utiel is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Requena-Utiel in the Valencian Community, Spain. According to the 2014 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a ...

in the

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. It is served by the Spanish

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high-speed rail system, on the

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History

The station was built in 2010 at a cost of €12.4 million. It has been described as being "designed to favour rational use of energy. For this, energy efficiency, thermal insulation and energy saving criteria have been taken into account, so it will include thermal solar panels to produce hot water and photovoltaic panels to receive solar energy and transform it into electrical energy." Since opening, the station has been criticised for being one of the least-used stations on the entire

network, with "less than 20 passengers a day" in 2016.

References

Railway stations in the Valencian Community Railway stations in Spain opened in 2010 Requena-Utiel Buildings and structures in the Province of Valencia {{Spain-railstation-stub