Positive derivative of the change of the station of the AVE station in Madrid from Atocha to Chamartín. The train trip between Alicante and Burgos (600 kilometres) can be done in 4 hours and 35 minutes as of January 23, 2023, the date on which Renfe plans to adapt the frequencies of the Madrid-Burgos high-speed line that has a stop in Valladolid, adapting the schedule in Chamartín to the train that leaves from Alicante at 7:10 a.m. tomorrow so that its passengers in the direction of Burgos only have to get off and change trains on the same platform from the north station in Madrid with the same ticket that has not yet gone on sale.
Another possibility will be that travelers can also finish their trip in Bilbao, 2 hours and 30 minutes from Burgos by train. The province of Burgos is one of the classic tourist stations on the Costa Blanca. The only possibility right now to arrive was a change in Chamartín with a two-hour wait. Castilla y León is the fourth autonomous community as a source of Spanish tourists to the Costa Blanca after Madrid, the Valencian Community itself and Castilla-La Mancha, and rivaling the Basque Country.
Hence the importance of increasing rail services in a province where the number of workers affiliated with Social Security registered for employment in the hospitality and travel agencies branches is 82,000. The group of Social Security affiliates in the tourism branches in the province of Alicante represents 13% of the total affiliated workers and 44.5% of the total tourism affiliates in the Valencian Community.
The opening last summer of the tunnel connecting the stations Puerta de Atocha and Chamartín It has cut the train journey from Alicante not only to Santander and Gijón by half an hour, but has left Castilla y León, specifically Segovia, Valladolid, Zamora, a four-hour train journey. Renfe also offers the possibility of traveling by AVE between Alicante and Ourense in 5 hours and 10 minutes thanks to the opening of new high-speed sections.
The circulation of these transversal services through the new tunnel with a stop in Chamartín allows the connection between the Valencian Community (Alicante, Valencia, Castellón) with Asturias (Oviedo, Gijón) and Cantabria (Santander, Torrelavega), with intermediate stops at stations in Castilla León (Valladolid, Zamora, Palencia, León and Burgos since January 23) and Castilla La Mancha (Cuenca, Albacete).
Mediterranean corridor
Secondly, Adif High Speed has requested a new forced expropriation file to seize 46.6 hectares of more than 90 farms distributed among the municipalities of Níjar, Sorbas and Lucainena de las Torres (Almería) for the works on the Los Arejos-Níjar section of the AVE with Murcia after the modification approved last June.
The process involves the declaration of public utility or social interest, the need to occupy the affected assets and the declaration of urgency of the same, as indicated in the announcement published in the BOE, which details the rustic nature of all the plots, of which it is also intended to access 3.48 hectares of easements and 2,403 square meters of land for temporary occupation.
The resolution of the General Directorate of Planning and Evaluation of the Railway Network It also summons the owners of the assets and rights affected to draw up the minutes prior to the occupation between December 13 and 14, for which each city council has enabled a space and has set a time in this regard.
The construction works of the platform of the Mediterranean Corridor from Almería to Murcia in the Los Arejos-Níjar section (Almería) were extended in 15 months after Adif Alta Velocidad resolved last summer to modify the contract signed with Sacyr Infraestructuras in April 2019 for an amount of 23.2 million euros.
The resolution to modify the contract, which raises the total amount of the action to 141,793,588 euros, extended the works, at least, until March 2023, although the initial execution period estimated a period of works of 32 monthsthat is, until the end of 2021.
The document detailed several causes that have motivated the extension of workamong them the climatology of the area in which there is a “high risk of isolated depressions at high levels”, that is, episodes of ‘cold drop’, for which additional embankment protection works against floods are proposed.
The document on the modification of the contract also refers to the condition of the Boquera Morillas deposit, which has “forced to cut the Tejar viaduct” and “replace it with an embankment as a measure to protect the existing heritage in said deposit”.
This aspect has made the viaduct go from measuring 1,312 meters –between the Rambla del Tejar and A-7– to having a structure of 769.5 meters, between the Rambla del Cebollero and A-7, a embankment of about 300 meters and a 138 meter viaduct, which is the new Tejar viaduct.
The modification also entails the adaptation of the project to the circumstances of the work in terms of affected services, replacement of easements and some measurements. In the same way, and “due to certain structural uncertainties, the indications of the General Directorate of Highways and the recommendations of the environmental bodies”, the system of resistance to longitudinal earthquakes and the assembly system of boards will be modified “passing to the launch of the same instead of the assembly with cranes“.
The execution works of the platform construction project of the Los Arejos-Níjar section, of 17.8 kilometers, run through the municipalities of Sorbas and Lucainena de las Torres. The layout of this section is projected to be a double track with a platform of 14 meters from the origin and for 9.2 kilometers, and the rest on a single track with a platform of 8.5 meters, having to have a track device to materialize the transit between double track and single track.
