It is a fundamental action that will allow Spain to connect with the European rail network via different track gauges. In addition, we wish to highlight the importance of the investment effort along the entire Mediterranean Corridor, from Algeciras in the South of Spain to the French border. It is the so-called Door to Europe.

This is a milestone of great relevance in the progress of the construction works on this new infrastructure. La Sagrera is expected to become the greatest station of Barcelona, together with Sants. In addition to generating great benefits for the railway operation, the station will unite neighborhoods and create new spaces for citizens. The new route is 1.98 km long, from the railway triangle to the mouth of the tunnel that gives access to Barcelona-El Clot-Aragó station. Inside the structure, where progress is being made in the assembly of four concrete slab tracks. Two of them are intended for general use and the other two for parking. The operations are to start on July 25, and according to current planning, trains will circulate inside the new underground section without stopping, starting next November.

This project, known as 4 + 4, will allow the implementation of a new track concept, which is of great importance for the improvement of the service, since it will allow the optimization and adaptation of the infrastructure's capacity at the core of Barcelona's railway network.

Other relevant actions: infrastructure replacement and protection. Adif is making progress in the reconstruction works of the bridge over the Tordera river, on the Barcelona-Mataró-Maçanet conventional-gauge line, whose structure was seriously affected by the storm Gloria last January. Likewise, progress is being made in the infrastructure protection works of the Mataró-Cabrera de Mar stretch, of approximately 2.2 km, to consolidate and repair the existing breakwater protections and mitigate the impact of sea storms. Finally, work is being done on the comprehensive modernization of the Toses tunnel's infrastructure (Girona), located on the Barcelona-Puigcerdà conventional-gauge line. This intervention regards the structure of the Toses tunnel, located between Planoles and La Molina.