Adif reopened train traffic this Sunday on the Palencia-Santander railway lineafter having simultaneously reached a new milestone in the duplication of the conventional Torrelavega-Santander line, between Renedo and Guarnizo and high-speed deployment works.
In the conventional network, Adif has integrated the deployment of the second road in an environment of “complex orography such as Parbayón”, the entity said in a statement. The works consisted of the construction of the concrete slab that, supported by more than 80 piles, channels the new 400-meter section that allows a double track during its passage through the region. In addition, the old track was lifted, the new track was installed and the catenary was deployed.
For the moment, the new road will be put into service, while all the infrastructures are ready to carry out the works of the second, minimize conditions in subsequent actions.
This action, included in the section between Renedo and Guarnizo (1.8 kilometers), constitutes, as Adif reports, a “progress in the duplication of the conventional line”, one of the main actions of the Cantabrian Shuttle Plan to which a investment of 138 million euros.
Similarly, progress has been made in the construction of the underpass, which eliminates the Parbayón level crossing.
Actions have also been taken to improve signalling with three new interlockings in Mata Porquera, Pozazal and Sopeñaas well as the demolition and replacement of two viaducts. Taking advantage of the reduction in traffic and in order to avoid future traffic disruptions, the slab over the Camesa River was also renewed.
Finally, he has conditioning of the Torrelavega Tanos stationwhich has regional, suburban and long-distance traffic, to “improve its accessibility” by installing an underground passage and elevators in the coming months to replace the passage between platforms.
Incompatible with rail traffic
For the deployment of the Palencia-Santander High Speed Line (LAV), Between August 1 and 31, Adif worked on the construction of the platform sections parallel to the conventional line and the viaduct (80 meters), which will channel the passage between the two in Marcilla de Campos. The routes, which total approximately one kilometer and are located at different points on the line, They will now continue to advance in the holding strip during the night.in hours without train traffic.
The performances were “incompatible with rail traffic”This is why they focused in August to minimize the impact on traffic, both passengers and goods, with the port of Santander.
Adif is thus accelerating the connection to this line, to which it is allocating an investment of 1.7 billion eurosThe deployment of this high-speed line is already being carried out by completing five sections (78.4 km) between Palencia and Alar del Rey, in which adds the rental of the drafting of the project of the Alar del Rey-Reinosa (51.4 km). In parallel, actions are being promoted to increase the connection capacity from Reinosa and Santander, which is materialized through the conventional network.
The execution works of the project to construct the platform of the Palencia-Palencia Norte, Palencia Norte-Amusco and Amusco-Osorno sections of the Palencia-Aguilar de Campoo LGV benefit from European funding, through the Recovery, transformation and resilience plan. Funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.
