The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, visited this Thursday morning the works of La Sagrera station, where the commissioning of five new high-speed tracks is being finalized. The visit took place on a day in which he also held a meeting early in the morning with the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, nearly three months after the fatal accident in Gelida.
The future expansion will allow adding those five tracks to the three high-speed ones that are already operational in La Sagrera. Through these latter ones currently pass about 34 daily circulations from Monday to Friday and about thirty during the weekend.
Final phase before the tests
Transport maintains that the electrification, control, and signaling works still need to be completed to be able to start the testing phase. In parallel, in the infrastructure, the assembly of all tracks has already been completed in the central area of the station and at the head of the Sants side.
Also, the entire structure of the station has been completed, which includes 23,400 square meters of roof and eight modules. The volume of investment contracted in the infrastructure amounts to 1,275 million euros so far, of which 1,065 million have been executed, close to 85 %.
More capacity for high speed in Barcelona
Another of the fronts that the work faces is the technical train treatment area, which is also in its final stretch. This space will have 10 tracks and is expected to serve to increase the capacity of high-speed services in the Barcelona area and also the operational capacity of Sants station.
Adif has approved this month the drafting of the architecture project and of the facilities of the future station. The execution of these works has an estimated investment close to 350 million euros.
Trains in transit since March 2025
Since March 2025, high-speed trains with passengers already circulate through La Sagrera, although they do not yet stop at the station. These are services that connect Barcelona, Girona, and the French border, in a corridor that has begun to use the new infrastructure while the works continue.
After the visit to La Sagrera, Puente has also moved to the Adif control center located in Estación de Francia. The day in Barcelona has thus been marked by the monitoring of two key points for the railway network, with La Sagrera still under construction but increasingly closer to expanding its real capacity for high-speed.