The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has awarded for 2.8 million euros (VAT included) the drafting of the project to connect the logistics platform Saragossa Plaza with the Zaragoza-Canfranc-Pau line in standard width, a strategic performance to continue positioning Aragon as a reference node of the railway transport of goods and enhance cross -border traffic.
The project will be drafted according to the prescriptions of the informative study of the standard width connection of the Zaragoza-Canfranc-Pau line with the Plaza Logistics Platform, which estimates an investment of 160 million euros to develop the works. Once completed, the execution of the works may be hired.
The standard width connection to Zaragoza Plaza (21 kilometers) is included in the studies for the rehabilitation of the Zaragoza-Pau section, which will allow the restoration of international traveler and merchandise circulations, enabling a new railway corridor between Spain and France, additional to the Mediterranean and the Cantabrian. The new route would go through bifurcation to Teruel, the polygon of the Cartuja and the knot next to Miraflores.
This point has a connection for standard width travelers, while access to the Plaza Logistics Platform is configured in Iberian width. According to the informative study, the project will technically define the deployment of a third lane on the connection routes to Zaragoza Plaza, while double the sections that present unique via. In this way, the versatility of the railway infrastructure will be maximized, which, in addition to being suitable to circulate both in standard and Iberian width (mixed width), will see its capacity increased.
Additionally, it is planned to intervene in the merchandise terminal of the Cartuja, maintaining or expanding the length of the existing roads and modifying its configuration to facilitate the exploitation with traffic in both widths. Possible performances will also be analyzed at the Río Huerva apartment.
