📋 Tender Overview
Adif invests more than 10.2 million euros in the work to adapt the security facilities at the Almudévar station (Huesca) to the new configuration of the sectional tracks that will be extended to 750 m.
These works, which will make it possible to park and park standard length trains, reinforce the interoperability of the railway network and improve the performance and reliability of circulation. In this way, a new boost is given to rail freight transport in the conventional gauge Zaragoza-Tarragona via Lleida corridor.
With this action, all elements of the control, command and signaling system will be intervened, including interlockings, train detection and protection systems, power supply, telecommunications equipment and wiring. Action will also be taken on the security installations of the Zuera and Tardienta collateral stations. The works will be carried out by Alstom Transporte.
Connection with the Port of Barcelona
These actions are included in Adif's plan to deploy sidings of up to 750 m in 9 other stations of the Zaragoza-Barcelona corridor: Selgua, Marcén-Poleñino (Huesca), Fuentes de Ebro, Nonaspe and Chiprana ( Zaragoza), Juneda and Raimat (Lleida), La Puebla de Híjar (Teruel) and Flix (Tarragona).
These investments are part of the agreement signed between Adif, State Ports and the Port Authority of Barcelona (APB) to promote rail freight traffic with the Port of Barcelona, ??taking advantage of the synergies between maritime and rail transport and promoting competitiveness and reducing CO2 emissions.
Adif is also working on the deployment of Railway Highway services on the Zaragoza-Lleida-Tarragona route, the one with the highest demand in the entire railway network, with more than 100 circulations/week in each direction. These services will be key to the development of intermodality on the Peninsula and traffic between Europe and Morocco.
European Financing
This action will have European financing through the “Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Funded by the European Union NextGenerationEU.
