RENFE

Renfe Operadora

Type	State-owned company
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	24 January 1941
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Key people	Julio Gómez-Pomar Rodríguez (CEO), Enrique Peña Pérez, Manuel Fresno Castro, José Luis Marroquín
Products	Rail transport, Freight
Revenue	€ 2.014 billion (2013)
Operating income	€ 21.2 million (2013)
Owner	Government of Spain (100%)
Number of employees	13,954 (2011)
Subsidiaries	Renfe Mercancías
Website	www.renfe.com

Renfe Operadora (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈreɱfe opeɾaˈðoɾa]) is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 ²¹⁄₃₂ in) Iberian gauge, the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge and the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge networks of the Spanish national railway infrastructure company ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias—Railway Infrastructure Administration).

The name "Renfe" is derived from that of the former Spanish National Railway Network, RENFE (acronym of Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles—National Network of Spanish Railways) created on 24 January 1941 with the nationalisation of Spain's railways. As per EU Directive 91/440, RENFE was divided into Renfe-Operadora (operations) and ADIF (infrastructure) on 1 January 2005. At the same time, the existing RENFE double-arrowed logo (nicknamed the "galleta", Spanish for biscuit), first introduced in 1971 and given a facelift in 1983, with a sans-serif font, and again in 2000, with a mixed-case italic font, has been replaced by a dark purple lower-case wordmark designed by Interbrand, and also replaces some of the separate logos used by the other sectors, although the old RENFE logo remains in use in some stations in Spain and on maps to indicate an ADIF station.