Tarragona – Valencia railway line
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Talgo train at L'Aldea - Amposta - Tortosa station
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Route number : | 600 (lane change system La Boella / Tarragona – Valencia Estació del Nord) 620 (L'Aldea - Amposta - Tortosa – Tortosa) |
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Route length: | 299.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1668 mm ( Iberian track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 25 kV / 50 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 220 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Further gauge: | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) (Camp de Tarragona –Lane change system La Boella) (Castellón – Valencia - La Fuente de San Luis) ( three- rail track ) |
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The Tarragona – Valencia railway line is an electrified, partially wide-gauge railway line in Spain. The operator is the state-owned Spanish railway infrastructure company Adif . The route is part of the Corredor Mediterráneo (Mediterranean Corridor).
history
In the mid-1850s, plans began for a railway line that would pass near the Mediterranean. The railway company Sociedad de los Ferrocarriles de Almansa á Valencia y Tarragona was responsible for the planning and construction . Major disagreements initially existed in the route around Tortosa , as there were demands to connect the city to the new traffic connection. The connection to Tortosas was finally built, but meant a major detour through the Ebro valley . After numerous partial openings, the entire railway line was completely passable from 1868 when the Ebro crossing at Tortosa was commissioned. Electrification took place in 1973.
Since its opening, the line has been of great importance in long-distance traffic between Valencia and Barcelona and has been expanded and modernized for years. The maximum permissible speed has been increased in some cases to 220 km / h. In the course of the expansion of the route, some sections were replaced by new sections. In 1996 the variant del Ebro went into operation, which made the previous detour via Tortosa superfluous with a new Ebro high bridge near Amposta . Since then, Tortosa has only been connected as a branch line to today's main line via the L'Aldea - Amposta - Tortosa station. In 2000, the above-ground railway line in the urban area of Castellón was abandoned and replaced by a tunnel stretching further east. A thoroughfare was built over the old railway line, and the Plaça d'Espanya with residential buildings, a department store and a park was built on the old station grounds . The historic station building was integrated into the square, completely restored and returned to its original state.
Opening date | Route section |
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April 20, 1862 | Valencia - Sagunto |
August 24, 1862 | Sagunto – nulls |
December 26, 1862 | Nulles - Castellón |
November 19, 1863 | Castellón - Benicàssim |
March 12, 1865 | Benicàssim - Ulldecona Amposta - Tarragona |
March 19, 1867 | Ulldecona – Las Ventallas |
May 8, 1867 | Tortosa – Amposta |
December 24, 1867 | Las Ventallas – Tortosa (right bank of the Ebro ) |
June 21, 1868 | Bridge over the Ebro in Tortosa |
January 13, 2020 | Camp de Tarragona - Vandellòs |
A mainline track between Valencia and Castellón was converted to a three-rail track that enables trains to operate on different gauges . Castellón has been connected to the AVE high-speed network from the south since 2018 . In January 2020, the new variant de Vandellos line was opened, which resulted in extensive changes in the northern section of the line. The original route between Vandellos and Port Aventura has been closed, and two new stations have been set up to replace the new route, but these are located outside the town center. Furthermore, the Tarragona station lost its function as a stop for the Euromed express trains. These now stop at the high-speed train station Camp de Tarragona .
business
The route is used by long-distance and regional trains. Individual AVE high-speed trains run between Castelló and Madrid via Valencia, and the entire route between Barcelona and Valencia is served by Euromed express trains, most of which continue to Alicante. With the opening of the new line between Camp de Tarragona and Vandellòs, the Euromed trains now run via the high-speed train station Camp de Tarragona, Tarragona station is no longer served. With the new section, a daily pair of Avant express trains has also been offered between Barcelona and Tortosa since February 2020 , which shortens the travel time between the two destinations by 50 minutes. Other long-distance trains are the Talgos from Barcelona-França to Seville and Alicante. In regional traffic there are connections between Barcelona, Tarragona, Tortosa, Ulldecona and Port Aventura in the northern section . The southern section is served by line C-6 of the Cercanías València ( Valencia S-Bahn ) between Castelló and Valencia.
Planning
Both mainline tracks between Valencia and Castellón are currently being converted to three-rail tracks. In the medium term, the route is to be completely converted; in the long term, it is planned to switch to standard gauge.
Others
A consortium of Bombardier and Thales received the order in March 2015 to equip the route between Valencia and Vandellós with ETCS Level 1 . The order is worth 29.6 million euros.
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Remarks
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Almansa á Valencia y Tarragona (AVT) Compañía del Ferrocarril de Almansa á Valencia y Tarragona. https://www.spanishrailway.com/ , accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ^ El nuevo puente sobre el Ebro tiene un spectacular vano de 92 metros. (PDF) vialibre-ffe.com, accessed on February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ^ El Viaducto de Tortosa. historiastren.blogspot.com, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ 20 años de la nueva estación de tren de Castelló. elperiodicomediterraneo.com, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ Cronología básica del ferrocarril español de vía ancha. (PDF) docutren.com, accessed on February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ Luces y sombras del nuevo tramo del corredor del Mediterráneo. lavanguardia.com, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ Adif ejecuta las últimas actuaciones en la infraestructura para la puesta en servicio de la nueva variante Vandellós-Tarragona. prensa.adif.es, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ^ Tarragona dice adiós al Euromed. diaridetarragona.com, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ Nuevo servicio Avant de ancho variable entre Barcelona y Tortosa. rodalies.gencat.cat, accessed February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ Catálogo de las Restricciones de Capacidad en la RFIG. (PDF) adif.es, accessed on February 27, 2020 (Spanish).
- ^ Intelligence market . In: Railway Gazette International . tape 171 , no. 4 , 2015, p. 16 f . ( railwaygazette.com ).
- ^ Thales and Bombardier to Deliver Latest Rail Control Contract for the Mediterranean Corridor in Spain. Thales, June 16, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016 .