The public tender for the work of electrification of the Algarve Line between Lagos and Tunes was published yesterday by Infraestruturas de Portugal in Diário da República.
This work, like the one released at the end of October for electrify the line between Faro and Vila Real de Santo António, should cost around 23 million euros and be ready "by the end of 2023".
Under this contract, the electrification will be carried out, with the 25 kV/50Hz system, of a section 45 kilometers long.
Among the many actions planned, there is the intervention in the existing metal bridges in Portimão and Vale da Lama, for the installation of a catenary, the painting of the latter bridge and the construction of a new infrastructure to support the signaling and telecommunications systems.
It is also part of the project «the intervention to reinforce the stability conditions on slopes and the rehabilitation or execution of a new longitudinal and transversal drainage system to the road».
Another project planned is the requalification of the Level Crossing in the vicinity of the Poço Barreto – Silves stop (313,914) for crossing only by pedestrians.
“As a safer alternative for car and rail traffic, an Overpass will be built at kilometer 314,254”, according to Infraestruturas de Portugal.
The level crossings located in the vicinity of Estômbar-Lagoa Station (kilometre 324,964) and next to the Station of Portimão (kilometre 330,572) will also be eliminated.
In both cases, the "safer alternative for car and rail travel" will be the construction of a road overpass.
In Estômbar, the crossing will be installed in the same place as the level crossing, while next to the Portimão Station it will be built a little west of the crossing to be eliminated, at kilometer 330,009.
This investment aims to «ensure that the entire route on the Algarve Line can be carried out using electric rolling stock, resulting in environmental advantages and advantages in terms of improving the quality of rolling stock», illustrated IP.
On the other hand, the aim is to «improve mobility in the metropolitan arc of the Algarve» and «enhance the railway system with operating conditions that are independent of the consumption of fossil fuels».
The electrification project of the Algarve Line, which is being developed by Infraestruturas de Portugal, is part of the investment program called Ferrovia 2020.
«The electrification of the Algarve Line comprises a global investment of 65 million euros, co-funded by the EU, which includes the development of Studies and Projects, the execution of two electrification contracts, the construction of an electric traction substation in Olhão and the expansion of the electric traction substation in Tunis», explains the publicly-owned company responsible for the work.
The execution of contracts on both sections to be electrified, "to renovate the energy system of the technical rooms and reformulate level crossings" and "a contract for works associated with the railway telecommunications systems" are other planned actions.
The contract that went to the competition yesterday «will be part of the application to be submitted in the scope of COMPETE 2020, with the designation “Contract for the Electrification of the Algarve Line in the section Faro / Vila Real de Santo António”, referring to which community funding of around 85% is foreseen”.
The contest for electrification of Algarve line between Faro and VRSA had already been released by IP in October.
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