Adif expands the capacity of Valladolid - Campo Grande as a high-speed north node

• To respond to the liberalization and the continued extension of the network to the north: the high-speed trains from Palencia, León, Burgos, soon from Asturias and, in the future, Cantabria and the Basque Country pass through the station • The project will not affect the railway service and will add to those promoted in the city: the Eastern Variant and the new Railway Complex

November 8, 2023.- Adif AV will strengthen Valladolid Campo Grande as a node of the northern high-speed corridor, to respond to the growth of traffic associated with the extension of the network and the liberalization of passenger transport, by deploying the second standard gauge track at the northern exit of the station.

The duplication of this exit, currently on the single track, will increase the capacity and fluidity of traffic of the station, through which the high-speed trains that connect the center of the country with Palencia, León, Burgos pass, from November 30 with Asturias and, in the future, with Cantabria and the Basque Country.

Adif AV has mobilized a first investment of 31.2 million euros - which it is now negotiating - for the construction of the platform, the assembly of the track and the electrification of this second track, in a stretch of 7 km between the station and the north knot and the future Eastern Variant. It will be followed by the tender for the installation of signalling and communication systems.

Technical and planning challenge

The construction of the second track will be a technical and planning challenge: the new infrastructure will be adapted to the current space and its deployment will be addressed in phases, to make it compatible with the maintenance of the railway service.

To adjust to the space, in a first stretch of about 3.3 km (from 1.5 km to the north of the station and to the railway installation of Tres Hermanos), the second track is implanted to the west of the current one and requires extending lower passes and enabling a structure to save the Esgueva river channel. In a second stretch, of 3.6 km (between Tres Hermanos and the Nudo Norte), the new second track will be enabled to the east of the current one, through the conversion to standard width of the conventional track (equipped with polyvalent sleepers) and building a new conventional track.

Railway reorganization in Valladolid

Adif AV starts this project while promoting two other important actions in the city: the Eastern Variant, from which the track assembly and electrification have just been contracted, and which will channel freight traffic to avoid its passage through the station; and the new Railway Complex, currently under contract, which will turn Valladolid into a node of freight transport, technology and railway innovation.

In addition, in the Northern High-Speed Corridor, Adif finalizes the contracting of the deployment of the second track on a 41.5 km single-track route of the Palencia–León High-Speed Line (LAV), which will respond to the increase in traffic with the arrival of high speed to Asturias and the consolidation of liberalization in the network.

These actions contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 9 (promoting reliable, sustainable and quality infrastructure), 8 (economic growth and job creation) and 7 (energy efficiency).

European Funds

The construction of the platform, the assembly of the track and the electrification of the second track at the northern exit of the station of Alicante-Campo Grande will have European funding through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.