📋 Tender Overview
Adif has taken a new step in the electrification of the conventional railway line between Humanes (Madrid) and Illescas (Toledo), with the contracting of the drafting of the project to electrify its 15 km.
The action, a phase prior to the bidding for the assembly of the elements and equipment of the electrification system - from substations to poles, cables and catenary - will reinforce the reliability and sustainability of this route that accommodates both local and medium-distance traffic, as well as long-distance traffic distance, between the capital and Extremadura, while new high-speed sections are completed in this corridor.
The electrification of the line promotes the Plan de Cercanías Madrid, making possible the extension of the services of the C-5 de Cercanías line from Madrid to Illescas.
This project, which will be drafted by Saitec, is added to the one already underway to electrify the 157 km of this conventional line between Illescas and Talayuela (Cáceres).
Coordinated and complementary projects
The projects to electrify these two sections of the conventional line will be coordinated and completed through a transition zone: in the Talayuela-Illescas route, the electrification will be similar to that of high-speed lines and, in the Illescas-Humanes , to that of conventional lines.
Adif improves the conventional line between Madrid and Extremadura while promoting the works to complete the Plasencia-Cáceres-Mérida-Badajoz section of the High Speed ??Line, with the assembly of the Mérida bypass and the deployment of ERTMS, while advancing the construction of the Talayuela-Plasencia section. Likewise, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility is working on the information study of the Madrid-Oropesa section.
All these actions contribute to various Sustainable Development Goals (ODS): 9 (promotion of sustainable, reliable and quality infrastructures), 8 (contribution to economic growth and job creation) and 7 (energy efficiency).
European funding
This action may be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).
