Adif has awarded a EUR 157.5 million communications and signalling contract, as well as the construction of a facility for track assembly for the Talayuela-Plasencia rail section on the Madrid–Extremadura high-speed railway. Adif has not disclosed who will carry out these projects.
A EUR 118.3 million contract was awarded for the deployment of the most advanced railway signalling equipment and systems, including remote and real-time management on the railway section. This includes interlockings – devices controlling the signals on a section of railway remotely – train protection systems, fixed telecommunications, and Centralised Traffic Control (CTC), the system enabling remote and real-time management of all these elements.
Another contract, worth EUR 8.2 million, covers the installation of GSM-R railway mobile telecommunications equipment.
Additionally, Adif awarded a EUR 31 million contract for the construction of the facility from which the track assembly works on this second section of the high-speed line will be carried out. Located in Navalmoral de la Mata and covering 140,000 m², it will be one of the largest such facilities in the network. The installation will include areas for storing track components, a warehouse, offices, and a workshop for maintenance of rolling stock. It will also feature internal service roads, connections to the conventional railway network, and road access via the EX118. Once this section of the HSL enters service, the site will become a maintenance base.
Talayuela-Plasencia rail is the second section of the Madrid–Extremadura high-speed railway and Adif is accelerating the progress for the third section that will create the high-speed corridor. Together with the works on the first section, these contracts follow the recent awarding of those covering the electrification of the section, the construction of the Casatejada substation and the installation of the catenary. The next tendering process will concern the track assembly works.
Adif continues to advance the Madrid–Extremadura high-speed line, with simultaneous works at various points along the corridor. While completing the first section, Plasencia–Cáceres–Badajoz which is in operation since 2022 and electrified since 2023, it is finalising tests to bring into service the world’s most advanced signalling system, ERTMS Level 2.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility is working on defining the route for the Oropesa–Madrid section – the third section of the HSL.
In parallel, Adif is improving conventional railway links in Extremadura, including the Madrid–Valencia de Alcántara line – with design work under way for electrification – and the Mérida–Puertollano and Mérida–Los Rosales lines, both undergoing renewal works.
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