TMB’s (Transportes Metropolitanos de Barcelona) plans to expand its fleet of trains will also require the upgrading and expansion of the workshop areas for the maintenance and infrastructure of trains, equipment and components, and the adaptation of the areas to work safely in order to achieve this increase.

Inse Rail will draft the construction project to upgrade the workshop for the expanded fleet, to meet the specific needs of the rolling stock and meet the challenges involved in the expansion and maintenance of equipment and trains.

Some of the actions planned in the project include feasibility studies and the study of alternatives (to optimize non-railway facilities and existing infrastructure), structural calculations, and the impact on the workshop’s different installations. The project includes the work to design the architecture and civil works, foundations and earthworks, structures, enclosures, pavements, surfacing, drainage installations, low-voltage, ventilation, heating and cooling, high-voltage and medium-voltage installations and track. It also includes the work verify the current conditions, such as surveying and detecting the services that will be affected in the project area.

With this project, Inse Rail adds another important reference to its extensive experience in workshops and railway maintenance bases. It is currently planning ADIF’s first workshop in the Madrid-South maintenance sub-base, and Alstom’s new maintenance base in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda. Inse Rail recently designed RENFE’s new Fuencarral II high-speed workshop and the expansions of the workshop for self-propelled trains and the Santa Catalina II maintenance base, and also provided Project Management for the construction and commissioning of the Medina maintenance workshop on the Haramain high-speed line in Saudi Arabia.

Source: Inse Rail

The Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF) has been awarded the contract for the consulting and technical assistance services for the drafting of the construction projects of the traction electrical substation, and associated self-transformation centers, and the energy remote control of the Ronda-Algeciras section of the Bobadilla-Algeciras line.

The selected company is Inse Rail SL, and the contract has already been formalized for a total of 207,856.62 euros (including taxes). The completion time for the works is eight months from the date of the formalization of the contract.

This construction project is part of the Strategic Infrastructure and Transport plan, with the Bobadilla-Algeciras Railway as one of the elements to be upgraded to adapt it to high speed. The entire line will be electrified at 25 kV AC, compatible with AVE trains, which means that the line will be able to be used by AVE, Avant, conventional diesel and freight trains.

The project requires the installation of 2 x 25 kV systems with all of the necessary traction elements in the electrification installations, consisting of two 400/ 2 x 27.5 kV and 30 MVA traction substations, 9 intermediate self-transformation centers (ATI) and 2 final self-transformation centers (ATF), as well as the design of the energy telecontrol on the Bobadilla-Algeciras line.
The project is funded by the European Union through the ERDF funds.

Source: Andalucía Información

Inse Rail, in a joint venture, has been awarded the contract by ADIF to draft the construction project for the new railway access to the Alicante airport, which includes the infrastructure, track, platforms and the new passenger station. The expected completion time for the drafting of the project is 24 months. 

The railway access to El Altet Airport involves the construction of a bypass on the conventional, non-electrified line between Murcia and Alicante, with a platform equipped with multi-purpose sleepers for a final configuration of 2 UIC tracks. The access to be designed will connect to the Murcia-Alicante line near the Torrellano Station after the line enters the municipality of Alicante, with an approximate length of 4.75 Km.

The most important part of the project is the new station at the airport. Its underground design includes both the civil works of the cavern as well as its architecture, in addition to all of the non-railway facilities, on the land that is currently owned by AENA.

An important aspect to be taken into account is that the access point for travelers coming from the new station has already been defined in the airport’s new terminal.

Before and after the station, the route also runs underground between retaining walls, to eliminate the impact on the N-338 highway and the entrance road to the airport that would be generated by the construction of a rail access on the surface.

The section of underground tunnel between the retaining walls to the west of the station will be approximately 825 m long and the one located to the east, 333 m.

Source: Inse Rail

Adif has approved an investment of EUR 22,175,679.8 to undertake the first phase of the expansion, remodeling and improvement of the Valencia-Fuente de San Luis intermodal terminal, which is part of the network of strategic intermodal nodes with which Adif seeks to fully integrate rail into the transport chain.

The main purpose of this expansion is to provide the terminal with the necessary infrastructure and services to turn it into a large rail freight logistics area in Valencia to complement the existing ones in the port and thus boost intermodal freight traffic, creating resilient and sustainable infrastructure and helping to reduce the carbon footprint of freight traffic.

The Board of Directors of Adif has agreed to tender these works, which have an execution period of 12 months, in accordance with the indications of the Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility Strategy 2030, presented by MITMA, which proposes to effectively increase rail freight transport through the promotion of strategic intermodal nodes located on priority freight axes.

The intermodal and logistics terminal at Valencia Fuente de San Luis has a strong international dimension. It is located in the Mediterranean Corridor, next to the Puerto de Valencia, and forms part of the Trans-European Transport Network. It constitutes a key strategic node that favors interconnection, interoperability and intermodality of transport services, which will enable the circulation of standard gauge trains between Valencia and the French border. In addition, this terminal is linked to the development of the Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) of the Port of Valencia and Mercavalencia.

For these reasons, it requires optimal infrastructure and equipment and the possibility of offering first class intermodal and logistic services, allowing the handling of 750 m long trains, both conventional gauge (1,668 mm) and standard gauge (1,435 mm).

These actions are part of the agreement signed in 2019 by the Ministry of Development, the Regional Government of Valencia, Valencia City Council, Adif, Puertos del Estado and the Port Authority of Valencia for the development of the terminal, with the aim of making it a strategic peninsular node in the distribution of goods. This agreement allows for cooperation in making the land and financial contributions necessary for the construction of the terminal.

Source: ADIF (link to press release)

The Seville Port Authority has selected Inse Rail to draft the construction project for the railway accesses to the new terminals under concession on the Cuarto dock.

This project is being developed in parallel with the project for a new direct rail access to the Port of Seville that will speed up entry and exit by avoiding the reversal maneuver at the La Salud station. The project has already been opened for tenders by Adif.

This means that the layout is predefined by the Port Authority itself, but could undergo changes after the study of alternatives is completed. The approximate length is 2.5 kilometers and no structures are expected to be needed for the level crossings with the road network.

The works, with a completion time of six months, will involve, among other tasks, the collection of existing documentation, topography, geotechnics, analysis of existing services and facilities, identification of functional requirements, study of alternatives and drafting of a construction project to be executed entirely in the service area of the Seville port installations.

Source: Inse Rail  

May 11, 2022