Adif Alta Velocidad has awarded the engineering consortium made up of Inse Rail, Grusamar, Eptisa and GOC the contract to supervise the works of the future Atocha transit station that will allow trains that leave from Chamartín Station to stop at Madrid’s southern terminal, and will also expand the terminal’s capacity.
The supervision contract has a budget of 17.7 million euros and a completion time of 7.5 years.
This is the final action in the railway manager’s ambitious plan to expand the capacity of the high-speed network, and will turn Madrid “into one large train station with two terminals, Atocha and Chamartín”. It will connect the high-speed tunnel that passes through Madrid from north to south with the route used by trains from Barcelona and Andalusia, enabling them to continue to destinations in the north of the Peninsula.
The transit station will be located underground beneath the existing Puerta de Atocha station and Calle Méndez Álvaro. It will have four new tracks and two platforms, and although the execution involves a “high degree of technical complexity”, train traffic will not have to be cut off. It will have two entrances: one, to the north, from the existing terminal and another to the south, to give access to the Méndez Álvaro area, where an intermode platform for taxis, VTCs and private vehicles will be installed. The northern part of Puerta de Atocha will also be remodeled.
The project will be carried out on several levels: the platforms will be located at an elevation of 600 meters; above that, at 607 meters, there will be two boarding halls to the north and south, as well as the connecting walkways. The southern lobby of Méndez Álvaro will be located on an upper floor, at 611 meters and will include the taxi stand; and at 624 meters it will connect with the first floor of the Puerta de Atocha departure lobby. The underground station will also include a central skylight and a curtain wall.
Source: Inse Rail
