The Seville Port Authority has selected Inse Rail to draft the construction project for the railway accesses to the new terminals under concession on the Cuarto dock.

This project is being developed in parallel with the project for a new direct rail access to the Port of Seville that will speed up entry and exit by avoiding the reversal maneuver at the La Salud station. The project has already been opened for tenders by Adif.

This means that the layout is predefined by the Port Authority itself, but could undergo changes after the study of alternatives is completed. The approximate length is 2.5 kilometers and no structures are expected to be needed for the level crossings with the road network.

The works, with a completion time of six months, will involve, among other tasks, the collection of existing documentation, topography, geotechnics, analysis of existing services and facilities, identification of functional requirements, study of alternatives and drafting of a construction project to be executed entirely in the service area of the Seville port installations.

Source: Inse Rail  

May 11, 2022

This will be Adif and Adif Alta Velocidad’s first facility of this kind, and with it, the rail infrastructure manager aims to provide first-line maintenance of the twenty-two standard-gage locomotives and inspection trains that it has to carry out maintenance, examination and inspection work on the network.

The workshop will be built in Adif’s Madrid-Sur infrastructure maintenance sub-base and will be connected to the conventional line. It will also have the capacity to carry out the different maintenance operations on both standard and conventional-gage rolling stock.

Specifically, it will initially accommodate the twenty-two standard gage locomotives that Adif Alta Velocidad acquired in November 2019 to carry out examination, rescue, snowplowing or maintenance work support functions on high-speed lines.

However, the workshop will also be sized to handle the maintenance of the inspection trains and will be equipped with pits, longer bays and wheel turning equipment.

This new contract covers the analysis of the different options open to the Madrid Sur maintenance sub-base for building the workshop and connecting it to the conventional network, followed by the drafting of construction project.

The business consortium made up of Inse Rail and Ines Ingenieros Consultores, will draft the projects for the adaptation of overpasses and tunnel entrances throughout the north railway network managed by ADIF, including conventional, standard and metric gauge lines, where the installation of protective enclosures is considered necessary for the later installation of the Falling Object Detection (DCO) system, as well as the inspection and inventory of these elements of the infrastructure.

The Falling Object Detection system, whose purpose is to prevent traffic incidents due to the possible invasion of the track gauge by foreign objects, is considered necessary to improve the operation of the lines, since it makes it possible to reliably confirm at all times that the track is free of obstacles at the points where the system is installed.

The most critical points in terms of the possibility of objects falling onto the track are tunnel openings, due to the need to control possible falling loose material, and overpasses, due to the possibility of objects falling from vehicle traffic travelling over them.