There is already a date. The tunnel that will link Atocha and Chamartín and will allow the AVE without transfers will open on July 1. This has been announced by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, through the State Agency for Railway Safety (AESF), will open the new tunnel in standard gauge, as well as the high-speed southern access to the capital.
This new infrastructure has required an investment of 1,072 million euros and will make it possible to decongest traffic entering and leaving Madrid and connecting the high-speed lines in the north of Spain with those in the east and south, facilitating the establishment of passing services, thus avoiding transshipments in the capital and promoting territorial structuring.
The opening of this tunnel will allow the departure of the new high-speed trains from the Chamartín station, serving the financial area of the capital.
The Spanish high-speed network has been developed in two areas: on the one hand, the lines that connect Madrid with the north and northwest of the country, which originate and end at the Madrid-Chamartín-Clara Campoamor station, and on the other , the high-speed lines to the east, east and south, with origin and destination in Madrid-Puerta de Atocha. The new high-speed tunnel between the two stations in the capital -which has required an investment of 338 million euros- will allow both networks to be connected.
The commissioning of this infrastructure will allow the articulation of a unique and transversal high-speed network between the main Spanish cities, avoiding transfers in Madrid and promoting territorial structuring, the portfolio points out.
Once the expansion of Madrid Puerta de Atocha has been completed, and with the future through station in operation, all high-speed trains arriving or departing from the capital will be able to stop both at, which will go from being terminal stations (that is, stations origin and final destination of the circulations) to be through stations (intermediate in a route).
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