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The AVE to Asturias already has an arrival date: the Government will inaugurate it in November

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 01:45:56

The AVE to Asturias already has an arrival date: November. After 19 years of works, the high-speed trains will reach the Principality through the Pajares tunnels, two 25-kilometre-long tubes that, together with the rest of the railway variant, have involved an investment of more than 4,000 million s. euros and that make this the largest railway engineering project on Spanish soil.

This has been confirmed by the General Secretary for Infrastructure, Xavier Flores, who has finally set a date for a milestone that was expected to take place before the regional elections on May 28, but which accumulated new delays to the point that the current Government and Adif technicians refused to give new commissioning dates. The territorial announcement of the arrival of high speed in Asturias took place coinciding with the meeting of the representative of the Ministry of Transport with the Asturian government.

Oviedo – Madrid in three hours

The Pajares bypass, 50 kilometers long, starts in La Robla (León) and extends to Campomanes (Asturias). It will allow the travel time between Asturias and the plateau to be reduced, leaving the travel time between Oviedo and Madrid at around three hours, compared to the four hours and fifteen minutes that it takes today on the fastest train to make to this journey.

The route includes two 25-kilometre parallel tunnels that will be the seventh longest in the world in a railway infrastructure for the transit of passenger and freight trains, each one on a different track. They have an average slope of 1.7%, 214 fans and 58 connection galleries between their tubes for maintenance and evacuation in case of emergency.

400% overcharge

The initial work, started in 2004, was going to involve an investment of 1,085 million euros that has become more expensive to 4,000 million, which Adif estimates will be invested until it is put into service. ANNOUNCED ITS OPENING FOR THE YEAR 2010, THE DIFFERENT DELAYS CAUSED BY THE GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE GROUND, THE CRISIS OF 2008 OR MORE RECENTLY THE CRISIS OF MATERIALS AND THE RISING OF PRICES HAVE MADE THAT, IN TOTAL, 17 DATES HAVE BEEN GIVEN Other than opening, without fulfilling any of them.

Currently, trains to or from Asturias cross the Cantabrian mountain range via the ‘Pajares ramp’, an infrastructure created in 1884 and made up of a succession of 79 tunnels along a winding route, on a single track and shared by trains. of passengers and goods that reach maximum speeds of between 60 and 105 kilometers per hour. This ramp will be closed when the new variant comes into service, since according to the Ministry, adapting it for required merchandise would invest 1,200 million euros.

With the new variant, the adjustments will cut its journey by 37 kilometers and, in the case of passengers, it will take about 15 minutes to cross the Cordillera, compared to the 60 that it will take currently. 241,700 passengers who opted for Renfe trains in 2019 to an estimated figure of 600,000 passengers.

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Puck Henry
Puck Henry
Puck Henry is an editor for ePrimefeed covering all types of news.
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