Adif will build a new AVE station in Parla to avoid passing through Madrid on trains between Andalusia and Catalonia

The Ministry of Transport and its railway infrastructure manager, Adif, will build a new High Speed ​​train station in the Madrid town of Parla, which will allow you to avoid passing through Madridthrough the Atocha and Chamartín stations on the routes that link Andalusia with Catalonia.

According to sources from the railway sector, this new installation will allow the passenger not to have to get off the train on its way between Andalusia and Barcelona and skirt Madrid. The project is part of the plans to renew the Madrid-Barcelona High Speed ​​line that the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, presented this Monday, and that will allow trains to run at 350 km/h and the journey can be done, he said, in “less than two hours.”

The future station will be different from the new Cercanías —Parla Norte— which is about to be inaugurated and which, in addition to not having to enter Madrid, It will also mean a connection “in the Madrid area” for the Madrid-Levante line “in case of eventual incidents in the stations or in the tunnel in standard gauge”.

As Puente has pointed out, this project involves locating an AVE station in a town that in its area of ​​influence has more than 1.26 million inhabitantswhich are 4.7 million within a 15-minute range and six million potential users in less than an hour to this new installation.

In addition, Transport hopes to be able to “optimize” with this new station the currentThe Torrejón de Velasco knotwhich could increase its capacity, and absorb the increases in traffic expected with the entry into service of the High Speed ​​line-Portuguese border and the planned growth of the Madrid-Seville line.

Radical change for Parla

The mayor of Parla, Ramon Juradohas described the project to build an AVE station there as “fantastic news” for his city. It will put her “on the map” and ““It’s going to mean a radical change for the municipality,” he said during the informative breakfast in which Puente made the announcement.

This new station joins the new Cercanías station – Parla Norte – which Jurado has assured will be inaugurated “before the end of the year.” It will be in another location, has explained, because the route of the AVE tracks runs through a different location than the Cercanías tracks. Likewise, he has assured that it will be accessible on foot.

Northern connection: Chamartín and Barajas

On the other hand, the renewed Madrid-Barcelona AVE line will have new accesses in the north of Madrid. Puente assured this Monday that the works at the Chamartín station will conclude in “spring.”

One of them will connect Chamartín with the east and south without having to circulate through the tunnel that connects the station with Atocha, so that Madrid will have “an alternative itinerary“for trains coming from the area of ​​the Mediterranean and Andalusia.

With this alternative, the Ministry seeks a connection between the High Speed ​​lines between Madrid and Barcelona and Valladolid exclusively in the south direction and that in the future these two corridors will be connected without even having to pass through the Chamartín station, creating a “northern hub” for access to High Speed ​​in Madrid.

At the moment, the route and its viability still need to be finalized, but Transport is studying creating a “intermediate station” in this variant that provides service to Barajas airport or the “closure of the triangle” connecting this “northern junction” with the connections of the Madrid-Seville and Madrid-Levante lines, again bypassing the capital and without having to go through the tunnel between Atocha and Chamartín.