Vera-Almanzora AVE station now has a contractor: €16.95 million and 18 months of works
The Ministry of Transport has awarded the contract for the Vera-Almanzora station on the Murcia-Almería high-speed line for €16.95 million, with 18 months of works and a car park with up to 200 spaces.
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The future Vera-Almanzora high-speed station now has someone to build it. The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, through Adif Alta Velocidad, has awarded the works contract for this new stop on the Murcia-Almería line for €16.95 million (VAT included). The station will be built in the south of the municipality of Vera.
The contract has gone to the joint venture (UTE) Construcciones Glesa-Electricidad Montajes Almería, which will have 18 months to carry out the works once they get under way, as reported by Europa Press.
Why does it matter in the Valley?
The station bears the name of the Almanzora and, according to the Ministry, as well as serving long-distance journeys on the Mediterranean Corridor, it “will facilitate access to the railway for the inhabitants of the surrounding municipalities”. And for a district that was left without trains on 1 January 1985, with the closure of the Guadix-Almendricos line, any step that brings the railway closer deserves to be followed closely.
What the station will be like
- A building of 1,850 square metres with an entrance hall, boarding area, information, ticket sales and customer service, toilets, a commercial unit and offices.
- Platforms 450 metres long, with canopies. As the tracks will run about 8.6 metres above the ground, they will be reached from an underpass with 4 lifts, 4 escalators and 2 fixed staircases.
- A car park with at least 150 spaces, expandable to 200, with bus and taxi stops and a short-stay parking lane.
- An access road that will connect with the junction at kilometre 8 of the A-352 dual carriageway.
The Murcia-Almería line in figures
According to the Ministry, investments worth more than €2,700 million have already been carried out on the line, out of the more than 3,600 million planned. The trackbed along the entire route is finished or under construction, electrification work is progressing and the track-laying contracts have been awarded or put out to tender. The station may be co-financed with European ERDF (FEDER) funds.
In April, the Council of Ministers authorised the tender for the works, with an estimated value of €15.69 million excluding VAT. With the contract now awarded, the 18-month clock will start ticking when the machinery moves in.
