On December 18, 2006, the Minister of Infrastructure Magdalena Álvarez and the President of the Catalonian government, José Montilla, headed the inauguration of the High Speed Line section between Lleida and Roda de Barà in the HSL linking Madrid with the French border.
The section between Lleida-Pirineus station and Roda is 91 km long, with an automatic gauge-changing device located in Puigverd. From there the line includes a total of 20 bridges and viaducts totalling 6,178 metres, among which the one at Vinaixa stretches along 1,044 metres. Tunnels cover a total length of 8,040 metres - the longest ones, Lilla and La Riba, roughly digging two kilometres each.
In October 2003, a consortium by Dimetronic, Siemens, Alcatel and Indra was awarded by the Railway Infrastructure Administration (GIF) with the contract for the “Design, execution and maintenance of the interlocking, train protection, telecommunications and GSM-R radio systems for the Lleida-Barcelona section within the Madrid-Barcelona-French border High Speed Line”. This 185 Km section is the enhancement of the previously commissioned Madrid-Lleida project.
Within the said consortium, Dimetronic is responsible for the design, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance of the line’s Signalling System.
Dimetronic’s scope of supply includes Westrace-type electronic Interlocking and Local Control Panel, including sub-systems for Diagnosis, Maintenance and Register facilities. The Westrace interlocking will control all trains in the line through the relevant track equipment. This includes the ASFA ‘national’ train protection system, now installed in all conventional-speed lines. Also included is the Centralised Traffic Control (CTC) system of the section, which will be able to take place either at the existing Control & Regulation Centre (CRC) of Zaragoza, or at the Barcelona new one.
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