Adif has launched a EUR 158 million signalling tender for two sections of the Madrid – Alcázar de San Juan – Cádiz conventional line, which are common to the Atlantic and Mediterranean corridors.
The tender covers the modernisation and renewal of the signalling systems as part of company’s plan to promote conventional rail transport. This rail line passes through the provinces of Córdoba and Jaén, and the project will reinforce its capacity and reliability for passenger traffic and the future railway motorway.
The winner of the signalling tender will have to deploy new and higher-performance railway signalling systems and equipment on two sections of the Madrid – Alcázar de San Juan – Cádiz line totalling 167 km. The first section is 92.5 km long between Peñalajo (Ciudad Real) and Espeluy (Jaén), and the second one link Córdoba and Lora del Río (Seville) on a 74 km line.
Under the contract, 36 new state-of-the-art interlockings will be installed which will allow remote and real-time management of the signals of a railway section. The contractor will also install fixed and illuminated signals, and telecommunications systems. In addition, this equipment will be integrated into the centralised traffic control system (CTC) to manage traffic remotely and in real time.
The new signalling reinforces the reliability and capacity to accommodate more traffic on the line, part of the Atlantic and Mediterranean corridors, which provides passenger transport services, both local and conventional medium and long distance, and which is also planned to be used by services of the Algeciras – Madrid – Zaragoza rail motorway.
Adif is adding the action, which includes the drafting of the projects and the execution of the installations, to those it is already promoting in these provinces, and throughout Andalusia, within the framework of its commitment to the renovation and modernisation of the conventional railway network.
This project is expected to secure European co-financing through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
In Córdoba, the Spanish rail infrastructure manager is making progress in the drafting of the projects to completely renew 106.4 km of the conventional line between Villa del Río and Palma de Río. It is also working to recover the stations of Montoro and Almodóvar del Rio for local services, and on the construction of an urban walkway at the station of Villarrubia (Córdoba).
In Jaén, in addition to improvements in the electrification of several sections of the line, Adif is working to contract the reinforcement of accessibility and improvement of the Linares-Baeza station, with the installation of lifts, and recently tendered the improvement of the railway station of the capital and its accesses.
Recently, the government has authorised EUR 183.5 million maintenance tender for the telecommunications and security systems and facilities.
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