Alstom starts construction of new depot for the maintenance of FGC trains connecting with Barcelona airport

Alstom's new depot will handle the maintenance of the trains for 15 years. Spanning 3,500 m², it will feature two maintenance tracks, auxiliary workshops, a warehouse, workers' quarters, and project offices. The facility, to be built by Comsa, will also include an auxiliary services workshop and a rail connection to the Adif railway network.

The project covers 12 hectares, corresponding mainly to the construction of a road access, the access railway track, the track yard, workshop and separation of accesses and segregation of the factory. Additional work involves a third auxiliary track with the wheel turning equipment, the train washing tunnel and a traction substation for the new track sections.

FGC President, Carles Ruiz Novella, highlighted that "with the start of work on the new maintenance depot, together with Alstom, we are taking a step forward in advancing this new service". Ruiz assured that "the connection with Ferrocarrils between Barcelona and Barcelona-El Prat Airport will significantly improve sustainable mobility in the area surrounding the Airport and reduce the journey time from the centre of Barcelona to terminals 1 and 2 of the Airport". Along these lines, he stressed that "the new service will place us alongside the best airports in the world in terms of rail accessibility".

"It is always a pleasure to inaugurate new depots and projects, showing our commitment to Catalonia. With more than 1,100 direct employees, Alstom's industrial site in Barcelona is a global benchmark, not only for its operational excellence, but also for its commitment to sustainability, flexibility and its ability to diversify and take on new challenges. This new Alstom depot in Catalonia, which will maintain the new FGC fleet, is an example of our local maintenance capability and our proximity to our customers." said Leopoldo Maestu, President and CEO of Alstom Spain and Portugal.

The delegation visited Alstom's facilities to observe the progress in the manufacturing of the trains that will connect Barcelona-El Prat Airport. Specifically, they visited the two cars from the first train that are in a more advanced stage of manufacture: an intermediate vehicle and a vehicle with a driver's cab.

The Coradia Stream trains, with a total capacity of 656 passengers, will be accessible, without access steps from the platform, and will have an automatic ramp at the doors near the reduced mobility area. In each train, there will be 20 panoramic screens dedicated to train information and nine screens, also panoramic, dedicated to airport information, with information on flight departures and arrivals. In addition, all vehicles will have multiple luggage storage spaces.

The new FGC service will link the centre of the Catalan capital with the two terminals of Barcelona-El Prat Airport, with a frequency of every 15 minutes and a journey time of just over 20 minutes (between Passeig de Gràcia station and T-1). The new line, currently under construction, will be 22.7 kilometres long and have a total of 9 stations: Sant Andreu, Sagrera, El Clot, Passeig de Gràcia, Sants, Bellvitge, El Prat, Airport T-2 and Airport T-1."

With over 150 years of presence in Catalonia, Alstom is one of the main players in the sustainable mobility sector in the Region. With more than 1,500 employes in Catalonia, Alstom has industrial and technological presence for all the activities related to railway mobility, including the only Rolling stock manufacturing site in Catalonia, signalling engineering sites, services activities, R&D, electrification and turnkey projects.

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