The contract has been awarded to Inse Rail in a joint venture with Meta Engineering, and has a completion time of 27 months.
The main objectives of the project, which complements the projects to change the catenary and track gage, include enabling the implementation of standard gage for passenger and freight trains, overhauling the existing facilities to increase their availability and reliability, and increasing the capacity and regularity of rail traffic, which will help optimize and rationalize the railway operation in accordance with future scenarios.
The project also aims to improve the reliability of the signaling installations by incorporating new interlockings in the eleven stations of the sections, cable networks with a reduction factor, state-of-the-art track circuits (audio-frequency on the main line and general track and axle counters on siding tracks), civil works, new energy service connections and the interfaces between the interlockings and the ERTMS equipment.
Some of the operations to be carried out include the works for signaling, communications, traffic control, state-of-the-art interlockings, signals with LED technology, digital ASFA (Announcement of Signals and Automatic Braking) installation as a train protection system and integration into the Centralized Traffic Control (CTC).
This will also increase the durability of these systems by reducing the likelihood of incidents that affect service and streamlining maintenance needs.
The project will also include actions on the new track configuration in different stations in the section, as well as on the energy supply systems, technical buildings, conduits and auxiliary civil works, and on operations to carry out testing and commissioning.
Source: Inse Rail
January 28, 2023
