📋 Tender Overview
Adif begins a new phase of the bypass works that connects the logistics center of Valencia-Font de Sant Lluís with the Ford factory in Almussafes.
This rail corridor intended for goods traffic is equipped with a third lane and will connect with the future Valencia-Alacant standard gauge line and the Xàtiva-Valencia Iberian gauge line. Its construction, with an investment of 17 million euros, is key to the promotion of the Mediterranean Corridor and the rail transport of goods in the area closest to Valencia.
The work scheduled between February 23 and March 9 consists of the installation of two new multi-purpose diversions, one for each road, on the route between Silla and Benifaió, as well as related control and signaling actions. With this action, the connection of the bypass with the Xàtiva-València line will be enabled, for later commissioning, giving continuity to goods traffic towards the center, north and south of the peninsula.
These works will not interrupt rail traffic in this section, although the schedule of services on the C2 line of the Cercanías de Valencia nucleus will be temporarily adjusted.
More efficient and sustainable solution
The bypass for goods traffic between Valencia-Font de Sant Lluís and Almussafes will bring greater efficiency to the railway operation in this area of ??great socio-economic potential, since it will make it possible to separate goods traffic from services travelers In this way, the Silla-València section will be allocated primarily to Cercanías traffic, enabling an increase in frequencies.
Its commissioning will have an important positive impact from an environmental point of view for the urban centers of Silla, Beniparrell, Albal, Catarroja, Massanassa, Alfafar and Sedaví: the fact of establishing a direct connection with the Madrid-Valencia conventional gauge line , will prevent the passage of freight trains through the urban center of these municipalities.
European financing
This action is co-financed by the "Connecting Europe" Mechanism of the European Union (CEF).
