Transportes awards the construction of a new road to the railway complex of Fuencarral for an amount of 7.65 M€

Coating workshop of the new maintenance base in Fuencarral.

• The new track will speed up the entry and exit of trains and work machinery to both Renfe’s workshops and Adif’s future maintenance base, while reducing its route.
• Adif is building a new track and infrastructure maintenance base in Fuencarral.
• The new structure will replace the existing one in Chamartín, which will be demolished in the works of expansion of the station.

The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, through Adif, has awarded an amount of 7.65 million different actions to improve the connection of the Fuencarral railway complex with the rest of the network, which will speed up the entry and exit of trains and machinery both to the new maintenance base of Adif and to the workshops of Renfe and its road beach.

The Fuencarral railway complex, located in the north of Madrid, houses Renfe workshops and a new maintenance base of track and infrastructure that Adif is building to replace the one currently located in Chamartín-Clara Campoamor, which has to be demolished within the framework of the works of extension of the station.

Currently the access to the railway complex of Fuencarral is done through a single track (rodeo track) that is close to the station of Chamartín, practically at the height of the crossing with the M-30.

The contract that is now awarded, licit Last November, it will provide another route, parallel to the current one, which will also have a direct connection with the two general routes of the Fuencarral Commuter Station (line C4), thus considerably reducing the route for the entrance and exit to the Fuencarral complex and improving the railway operation.

In addition, Adif will renew the current rodeo track with higher performance materials and the catenary posts incompatible with the new track will be dismantled, which will be replaced by rigid semi-mortals that will serve both tracks.

The contract also includes the assembly of 6 track devices (1 escape, 4 detours and 1 crossing) in the surroundings of the new maintenance base and the demolition of the current base of Chamartín, as well as the transfer of machines, tools, materials and belongings to the new facilities.

New maintenance base

With an investment of about 13 million euros, Adif is building a new maintenance base in Fuencarral, which will have a ship distributed in three areas: workshop, warehouse and offices, with a total of 1,686 m² built.

It will also have four mango tracks; two of them will have a topera inside the nave. The inland waterway beach will occupy an area of 1,723 m². On the east side of the road beach, the land will be conditioned for the movement of heavy vehicles, thus allowing the collection of material. The exterior of the building, with a parking area, will be urbanized.

In addition, the base and its link with the general routes will have new signalling and telecommunications facilities and control, command and signalling facilities (CMS).

European funding

This action contributes to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), which has among its goals the development of reliable, sustainable, resilient and quality infrastructures.

This action may be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).