PONENTIA was satisfied with Adif's announcement of the start-up of rail highways in Spain

Adif announced yesterday, in the hands of its president, María Luísa Domínguez, the tender scheduled for the first quarter of 2024 for the drafting of the necessary projects to promote a rail freeway on the Iberian gauge connection between Zaragoza and Tarragona, through Lleida, for more than 60 million euros. Within the framework of the inauguration of the conference ‘Keys to the present and future of Railway Highways’, which PONENTIA attended, the president of the railway administrator analyzed the main lines of action to give a ‘decisive boost’ to these infrastructures.

This is the section where the logistics and industrial platform and the PONENTIA rail terminal are being built, in the municipality of Tamarite de Litera, with work scheduled to begin in January 2024. The railway terminal will be fully operational when Adif starts up this railway freeway line between Zaragoza and Tarragona through Lleida, more specifically, PONENTIA will operate together with Captrain the Tamarite de Litera – Irún and Tamarite de Litera – Portbou lines, which will have a link with the main railway and port terminals in Europe.

The tender to be put out to tender aims to adapt the gauges of 6 tunnels and 16 overpasses to the traffic generated by these services, in addition to improving the interoperability and performance of the Zaragoza-Tarragona line through Lleida, extending the sidings to a useful length of 750 meters in six stations.