The sustainable freight railway: Designing the freight vehicle – track system for higher delivered tonnage with improved availability at reduced cost SUSTRAIL Grant Agreement n°: 265740 FP7 - THEME [SST.2010.5.2-2.] Project Start Date: 2011-06-01 Duration: 48 months D1.4 Route summary: Track characteristics, condition and economic data Responsible: ADIF Due date of deliverable: 29/02/2012 Actual submission date: 30/04/2012 Work Package Number: WP 4 / Task 1.4 Dissemination Level: PU Status: Version 1 Leader of this deliverable: Maria García Santiago, ADIF Prepared by: Maria García Santiago, ADIF Enrique Mario García Moreno, ADIF Francis Franklin, UNEW Andrew Jablonski, NR Anthony Whiteing, UNILEEDS Mirena Todorova, VTU, in cooperation with NRIC David-Ibán Villalmanzo Resusta, ADIF Verified by: Paul Richards, NR Dissemination Level PU Public PU –V1 Page 2 of 56 Document History Version Date Author/s Description rev1 8-2-12 Maria García Santiago Deliverable 1.4 Enrique Mario García Moreno rev2 14-3-12 Maria García Santiago Deliverable 1.4 Enrique Mario García Moreno rev3 26-3-12 Maria García Santiago Deliverable 1.4 Enrique Mario García Moreno David-Ibán Villalmanzo Resusta rev4 26-3-12 Clemente Fuggini Editing and formatting adjustments - - Contributions by: Andrew Jablonski UK Route Anthony Whiteing Economics 4-4-12 Francis Franklin Bulgarian route Draft 2 7-4-12 Removed appendix Draft 3 8-4-12 (Bulgarian data provided by Conclusions VTU and NRIC) Editing / formatting Rev5 11-4-12 Maria García Santiago Spanish Route Enrique Mario García Moreno David-Ibán Villalmanzo Resusta Version 1 22-4-12 Francis Franklin Final edits D1.4 Route summary: track characteristics, condition and economic data PU –V1 Page 3 of 56 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 6 2. SPANISH ROUTE: MEDITERRANEAN CORRIDOR ................................................................ 8 2.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND .................................................................................................................................. 8 2.2 ACTUAL SITUATION ............................................................................................................................................ 8 2.3 CONCLUSIONS OF SPANISH ROUTE ...................................................................................................................... 19 3. U.K. ROUTE ..................................................................................................................................... 20 3.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................ 20 3.2 ACTUAL SITUATION .......................................................................................................................................... 20 3.2.1 Southampton to Nuneaton ................................................................................................................. 20 3.2.2 Felixstowe to Nuneaton ...................................................................................................................... 27 3.2.3 Nuneaton to Crewe – Slow line of the West Coast Main Line ............................................................ 30 3.3 CONCLUSIONS FROM THE U.K. ROUTES ............................................................................................................... 31 4. BULGARIAN ROUTE .................................................................................................................... 33 4.1 OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................... 33 4.2 SECTION CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................................................................................ 37 4.3 CONCLUSIONS OF BULGARIAN ROUTE .................................................................................................................. 48 5. ECONOMICS: DATA FOR LCC/RAMS ...................................................................................... 49 5.1 DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 49 6. CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................... 54 7. REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................. 56 D1.4 Route summary: track characteristics, condition and economic data PU –V1 Page 4 of 56 List of Figures FIGURE 2.1 THE AGE OF THE MATERIALS (RAIL, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST) OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CORRIDOR 9 FIGURE 2.2 TRACK QUALITY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CORRIDOR .................................................................... 10 FIGURE 3.1 AGE IN YEARS: RAIL, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST. ................................................................................ 22 FIGURE 3.2 A POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AVERAGE RESIDUAL LIFE OF THE RAIL AND THE NUMBER OF DEFECTS. ....................................................................................................................................................... 23 FIGURE 3.3 AGE OF RAILS, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST (BML1). ............................................................................ 25 FIGURE 3.4 AGE OF RAILS, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST (DCL). ............................................................................... 25 FIGURE 3.5 AGE OF RAILS, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST: FELIXSTOWE TO NUNEATON. ........................................... 28 FIGURE 3.6 AGE OF RAIL, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST (EMP). ................................................................................ 28 FIGURE 3.7 AGE OF RAIL, SLEEPERS AND BALLAST (NUNEATON TO CREWE). .................................................... 31 FIGURE 4.1 PODUJANE MARSHALLING YARD, SOFIA, NO LONGER ACTIVE. ......................................................... 33 FIGURE 4.2 PLOVDIV MARSHALLING YARD. LEFT: VIEW OF THE HUMP. RIGHT: VIEW OF THE ASSEMBLY AREA FROM THE HUMP. ........................................................................................................................................... 33 FIGURE 4.3 CONTAINER TRAFFIC AT DRAGOMAN (LEFT) AND PAZARDJIK (RIGHT), INCLUDING TANKS IN INTERMODAL FRAMES. .................................................................................................................................. 34 FIGURE 4.4 CONTAINER TRAFFIC AT DRAGOMAN: FLATBED WAGONS WITH STANCHIONS CARRYING TWO CONTAINERS. ................................................................................................................................................. 34 FIGURE 4.5 LOCOMOTIVE AND COACHES AT IHTIMAN. ....................................................................................... 34 FIGURE 4.6 KALOTINA STATION ON THE BRANCH LINE TO THE COAL MINE. ....................................................... 35 FIGURE 4.7 LEFT: STRETCH OF TRACK WEST OF DRAGOMAN. RIGHT: STEEL BRIDGE BETWEEN DRAGOMAN AND THE SERBIAN BORDER. .................................................................................................................................. 35 FIGURE 4.8 TRACK WITH ‘TIE-PLATE FASTENING WITH PRESSING CLAMP’: ON WOODEN SLEEPERS AT KALOTINA ON THE BRANCH LINE (LEFT), AND ON CONCRETE SLEEPERS AT IHTIMAN (RIGHT). ....................................... 36 FIGURE 4.9 VOSSLOH W 14 RAIL CLAMPS ON CONCRETE SLEEPERS WEST OF DRAGOMAN (LEFT) AND AT PAZARDJIK (RIGHT). ...................................................................................................................................... 36 FIGURE 4.10 LEFT: NEWLY LAID DOUBLE TRACK WITH CWR AND ELECTRIFICATION AT SADOVO EAST OF PLOVDIV. RIGHT: CLOSE-UP OF WELDS AND VOSSLOH W 14 RAIL CLAMPS. ................................................. 37 D1.4 Route summary: track characteristics, condition and economic data PU –V1 Page 5 of 56 List of Tables TABLE 1.1 DATA TO BE COLLECTED AT KEY LOCATIONS ...................................................................................... 7 TABLE 2.1 NUMBER AND TYPE OF SWITCHES ...................................................................................................... 10 TABLE 2.2 P.K. 3.765 – P.K. 7.238 LOCATED IN THE CABAÑAL TUNNEL .............................................................. 11 TABLE 2.3 P.K 15.132 LOCATED IN MASSAFASSAR STATION. .............................................................................. 12 TABLE 2.4 P.K 48.000 – P.K. 69.000 LOCATED BETWEEN MONCOFAR AND CASTELLÓN. .................................... 13 TABLE 2.5 P.K. 82.100– P.K. 90.700 LOCATED BETWEEN BENICASSIM AND OROPESA. ....................................... 14 TABLE 2.6 P.K. 110.000 – P.K. 119.000 LOCATED BETWEEN TORREBLANCA AND ALCALÁ DE CHIVER. ............. 15 TABLE 2.7 P.K. 147.000 LOCATED IN THE AREA OF VINAROZ. ............................................................................ 16 TABLE 2.8 P.K. 214.900 – P.K. 276.000 LOCATED BETWEEN BIFURCACIÓN CALAFAT AND TARRAGONA ........... 17 TABLE 2.9 P.K. 275.100 LOCATED IN TARRAGONA CLASIFICACIÓN .................................................................... 18 TABLE 3.1 ROUTE SUMMARY: SOUTHAMPTON TO NUNEATON ..........................................................................