Aldesa to build a new High Speed maintenance shop for Renfe in Madrid Norte Complex

Monday, February 03 2020

Renfe has officially awarded to the UTE formed by Aldesa and Imathia the contract for the execution of the construction work of the new Fuencarral II High Speed ??rolling stock maintenance shop and shunting yards of self-propulsion in the Madrid North Complex, for a value of 65.2 million euros (VAT included) and within 22 months.

In addition to this new maintenance shop, which is an industrial building on a single plant of 18,690 square meters, two shunting yards will be built to increase the parking capacity of the trains. On those shunting yards 13,257 meters of track will be mounted and in the self-propulsion area about 8,300 meters, with 83 track devices, among which there are detours, crossings and a width changer, which will allow branching and crossing of the itineraries. All this while maintaining the operability of a railway complex with more than 7 million passenger movements between suburban trains, conventional medium distance and High Speed.

The action also includes new electrification, security and communications facilities, which must be coordinated with the current facilities in service, which requires a phased execution so that the operation of the railway complex is not interrupted at any time.