The route connects with Murcia through a shuttle service and will be delayed by about 10 minutes due to the change
Adif Alta Velocidad will move the head of the Madrid-Alicante/Murcia high-speed services to the Madrid-Chamartín-Clara Campoamor station as a response to the increase in supply within the framework of the liberalization of the sector. As of September 13, the services will change their location, with the exception of four daily trains in each direction, which will head to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha. Two of them will start their operation in September and another two in December.
Adif AV and the operators Renfe, Ouigo and Iryo have maintained a dialogue in recent months to analyze the technical possibilities of maintaining the Alicante and Murcia services from the Madrid-Puerta de Atocha station, instead of moving the head to Chamartín, as and as agreed in 2020, in order to push their disposition and fit into their business plans.
increase traffic
The plan designed in 2020 to organize the circulation of trains between Madrid and Levante responds to an in-depth technical analysis of the capacity of the Atocha and Chamartín terminals and aims to respond to the needs of the liberalization of the sector and increase 50% traffic to accommodate new entrants. The plan originates from the Informative Study of 2007.
In fact, for its preparation, the service was prioritized and different phases of operation were taken into account depending on the availability of the infrastructures that will configure the Madrid high-speed network – the Atocha-Chamartín tunnel, the Atocha pass-through station and the new Chamartín station with more tracks- to respond to the traffic foreseen in the framework agreements with the operators in a liberalization context with more supply.
According to Adif, the location of the head in Chamartín will increase travel times by less than 10 minutes on direct trains between Madrid and Alicante and will achieve much greater time savings in transversal services.
Renfe traffic to Valencia will continue to operate temporarily from Madrid-Puerta de Atocha, until the Madrid-Chamartín-Clara Campoamor station has 8 standard gauge tracks, with the commissioning of new tracks 14 and 15.
Preparation of new infrastructure
In this sense, the Chamartín-Torrejón de Velasco section, put into service on July 1 after an investment of 1,000 million euros, favors the movement of trains coming from Levante on their way to Chamartín from Torrejón de Velasco, avoiding the junction with the Madrid-Andalusia high-speed rail lines. At the same time, the standard gauge tunnel between Atocha and Chamartín allows the circulation of transverse traffic between the north and west with the east and south, which may have stops at Madrid-Puerta de Atocha, as well as services to the Community Valenciana and Murcia, when their new intern terminal is built.
In parallel, Adif AV advances in the ambitious process of remodeling and expanding the Madrid-Chamartín-Clara Campoamor and Madrid-Puerta de Atocha stations to respond to the increase in passengers to and from the Valencian Community and Murcia.
This action is part of the remodeling of the station, which is being equipped with a new hall – since August 3 it has already been expanded – and four more tracks for high speed, in addition to two other tracks that change their width , before its comprehensive remodeling -which will emerge from a global competition already underway- and which will turn it into an international reference transport hub for design and sustainability.
All these investments, of great technical complexity, are made while maintaining the railway service, designing transitory solutions that allow the maintenance of all services.
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