Madrid - Castilla La Mancha - Comunidad Valenciana - Región de Murcia Line
New Valencia High-Speed Station
The station, with its coming into operation, will allow high speed to arrive to Valencia in 2010 and the continuation of the tunnelling works and the future Estación Central.
The building is constructed by applying sustainability, energy efficiency and environmental criteria.
Location and access
It is located near the Estación Norte, by San Vicente Mártir Street, and maintains its intermodal connection with the rest of the conventional gauge railway tracks, buses and road network.
It will be accessed from S. Vicente Mártir, Avenida de Giorgeta y Maestro Sosa streets. It will also be connected to the current Valencia Nord station.
Platforms and tracks
It has 3 10-metre wide platforms and 6 UIC gauge tracks. The central platform, which allows for double component parking, is 410 metres long, and the two side platforms are 230 metres long.
Gauge changers for Castellón journeys
For trains to travel from Castellón through the Madrid-Valencia high-speed line, a dual gauge interchanger, two platforms and three tracks will be built on the East side of the high-speed station.
Passenger area and internal facilities
The station has a one-level layout, at the same level as the platforms, following a double hallway plan. free zone and controlled zone This layout permits a double access control to the train. The area is structured in six differentiated blocks.
- Block A: it is located in the West side, near the main entrance. It mainly hosts the stores, due to its location near the main entrance and the exit towards the taxi area.
- Block C: for stores, coffee, toilets and storage area.
- Block D: for Customer Service Desk, facilities directly related to Travel Centre and an exhibition area on the first floor.
- Block E: for the Travel Centre. The first floor is for offices.
- Block F: the ground floor is for the left-luggage office, the information and tourism point, several stores and internal facilities. The first floor is for offices.
- Block G: For stores and internal facilities, VIP lounges. The first floor is for offices.
Furthermore, Block B is also an access to the station and to the shopping arcade.
Parking
On the West side of the station, from where one can enter or exit San Vicente Mártir street, we find the parking area for buses, cars and taxis.
- There are 60 quick rotation spaces near the entrance to the Station, to facilitate quick access to passengers.
- 591 general parking and car rental spaces. 5 spaces are reserved for people with Reduced Mobility
Evolutiona and current situation of the construction
We put the following link at your disposal so you may follow the works via webcam
Sustainability and energy efficiency
The station's facades are projected in polycarbonate, due to its light translucent characteristics, which will favour vision throughout the day and increases luminosity at night. The main entrance is marked with a transparent glass curtain wall.
Zinc and polycarbonate - recyclable materials have been chosen for its construction. The structure is made with metal elements which can be dismantled and then assembled as marquees and pergolas, which may have other uses.
Sustainable Design
The design of the Valencia High-Speed Station building is based on the concepts of Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and the Environment.
Sustainable construction will ensure environmental quality and energy efficiency of the building during its entire life cycle, from its design and construction phase to its maintenance and dismantling phase.
For the station building's concept the sustainable design parameter has been taken into account as an additional input when making decisions on the station's concept:
- An adequate orientation of the sun to reduce heat load.
- Adequate orientation to use the predominant winds as support to the passive ventilation system.
- Use of insulating materials in facades and roofs that reduce heat loss in winter and cold in summer.
- The facades which are exposed the most to solar radiation are solved with integrated protection systems in the station, such as the roofs over the platforms, to keep the common space cool and produce shadow in the interior facades.
Energy efficiency
The following stand out in the energy efficiency aspect:
- At the time of plannig and execution the control of all the facilities has been considered, integrating them in a Technical Management System.
- Technical Management allows us to adjust the operation periods of every single facility and detect possible problems in their operation.
- The station has a lighting control system, so the current level of illumination may be regulated to suit its needs, therefore significantly decreasing energy consumption.
- With regards to the air conditioning, we must highlight the fact that the hot air expelled is renewed, so we are able to decrease energy loss that would occur if the hot air were to expelled to the outside without it being treated.
Regarding the environmental measures, before the station's construction works began, the ground was decontaminated.
Financing
The Valencia high-speed station, included in the Access Channel Phase II, is financed by the Valencia Parque Central Alta Velocidad 2003, a corporation which comprises by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencia City Hall, Adif and Renfe Operadora. This purpose of this corporation is to execute the "Actuación Parque Central" project, which consists in the Remodelling of the Valencia Railway Network and the development of the land freed from rail use as a result of it.
- Valencia Parque Central Alta Velocidad 2003 S.A.
Remodelling of the city of Valencia's railway network.
MAIN FIGURES
- Phase II Access Channel Investment: 61.2 million euro
- Total project sphere: 102,472 m2
- Platform and passenger building: 53,652 m2
- Main hallway: 2,800 m2
- Shopping area: 2,288 m2
- Peri-urban area: 48,820 m2
- Car park area: 21,469 m2
- Number of parking spaces 651
Related links
- Video: New Valencia station in 3D
Infograph images which show the inside and outside of the new Valencia high-speed station. This station has been designed for an expected traffic of three and a half million passengers per year. Located south of the current station, it will render service until the Valencia Nord remodelling works end. - Video: Valencia-LAV Levante High-Speed Station
Summary of the current state of the works of the Madrid-Levante High-Speed line, when its first 438 km are about to be operational. It also explains the basic characteristics of the future Valencia High-Speed Station, which, located to the south of the current station, will render service to three and a half million passengers each year and allow for the connection between Madrid and Valencia in only one and a half hours.
Information Point and Customer Services Desks (PIAC)
PIAC of Valencia
- Address: Main hall of Valencia Nord station
- Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m. and Saturday 9.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.
- email: piac.valencia@adif.es
