Iberovías, a railway company of the Rover Alcisa Group, which specializes in construction and maintenance of railway superstructure works has made the construction project to expand the regional train service in La Cartuja in Sevilla, which constitutes the route of the C-2 that connects Santa Justa with La Cartuja, a line that will be in service on December 2, 3 and 4 for the celebration in Sevilla of the Davis Cup final, a line that has been visited by the President of ADIF, Antonio González, the Minister of Public Works of Andalusia, Josefina Cruz and the general Director of Rover Alcisa, José Luis Macicior, pictured with the President of ADIF.

With this work, the Rover Alcisa Group through his company Iberovías fixes the expanding of the territorial coverage of the commuter service from the optimization of the existing rail network and increasing the supply of rail transport.

The Commuter Plan contemplates the creation of a new line connecting the Island of Cartuja with Santa Justa including the construction of new stations and improvements in urban infrastructure in the urban ring. Along with Iberovías participating in a joint venture for the execution of the contract we have Elecnor and Sando Companies.

The scope of works includes the external branch of the Madrid-Seville, Huelva branch, the junction of los Naranjos, Seville-Huelva line and branch of La Cartuja, including current Olympic Stadium halts and La Cartuja, running in the province of Seville of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.

The main purpose of the work is to get a new commuter line between the output of Santa Justa to the station of La Cartuja, which will have a trivialized way down the line and three new stations or halts.

Most important actions

The project included three major areas of relevance. The first is the construction of the new halt in St. Jerónimo that will have a central platform, passenger building and pedestrian bridge of communication between them, saving Super-North Round and the Tamarguillo Stream, as well as a parking enforcement.

The second and third involve the adequacy of the current halt of Olympic Stadium, with a new passenger building and two platforms, and also the adequacy of the current station of La Cartuja, with a new passenger building and three platforms. The canopy of textile cover type will be rehabilitated  in the platform area.

Besides the works also include the construction of a new platform on track to double area (1.3 km) and consolidation of existing landfills in the rest of the section. In addition, also carried out the construction of a new overpass PK 0+410 of the Sevilla-Huelva line and a viaduct on the way to double, on its way over the Guadalquivir River.

Interventions on track

In this area there are three individual actions to highlight such as the doubling of track on the stretch between the bifurcation of Los Naranjos and the one in San Jeronimo (1.3 km long), connecting St. Jeronimo fork with the parallel section of track of the Sevilla-Huelva line that remains in gauge, and gauge change in the last one to fit the conventional gauge (5.3 km) and the assembly of 5 exits and 8 turnouts.