Alstom has launched the construction of the maintenance depot for FGC trains that will operate between Barcelona and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport starting late next year through early 2027.
This event was celebrated during a visit at the Alstom facilities in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda on April 9, 2025, attended by the President of FGC, Carles Ruiz Novella, the FGC General Manager, Alicia Valle Cantalejo, Alstom Europe’s President Gian Luca Erbacci and Alstom Spain and Portugal’s Managing Director Leopoldo Maestu.
The delegation visited Alstom’s facilities to observe the progress in the manufacturing of the trains that will connect Barcelona-El Prat Airport. Specifically, they visited the two cars from the first train that are in a more advanced stage of manufacture: an intermediate vehicle and a vehicle with a driver’s cab.
Spanning 3,500 m², the facility it will feature two maintenance tracks, auxiliary workshops, a warehouse, workers’ quarters, and project offices. The maintenance depot, to be built by Comsa, will also include an auxiliary services workshop and a rail connection to the Adif railway network.
The project covers 12 hectares, corresponding mainly to the construction of a road access, the access railway track, the track yard, workshop and separation of accesses and segregation of the factory. Additional work involves a third auxiliary track with the wheel turning equipment, the train washing tunnel and a traction substation for the new track sections.
“With the start of work on the new maintenance depot, together with Alstom, we are taking a step forward in advancing this new service. The connection with Ferrocarrils between Barcelona and Barcelona-El Prat Airport will significantly improve sustainable mobility in the area surrounding the Airport and reduce the journey time from the centre of Barcelona to terminals 1 and 2 of the Airport,” the President of FGC said.
Alstom’s new maintenance depot for FGC trains will handle the train fleet for a period of 15 years. The Coradia Stream trains, with a total capacity of 656 passengers, will be accessible, without access steps from the platform, and will have an automatic ramp at the doors near the reduced mobility area. In each train, there will be 20 panoramic screens dedicated to train information and nine screens, also panoramic, dedicated to airport information, with information on flight departures and arrivals. In addition, all vehicles will have multiple luggage storage spaces.
The new FGC service will link the centre of the Catalan capital with the two terminals of Barcelona-El Prat Airport, with a frequency of every 15 minutes and a journey time of just over 20 minutes (between Passeig de Gràcia station and T-1). The new line, currently under construction, will be 22.7 km long and have a total of 9 stations.
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