Sorbas-Barranco de los Gafarillos High Speed Train
Construction of the platform of the Mediterranean High-Speed Corridor. Section: Sorbas-Barranco de los Gafarillos.
The construction of the platform of the Mediterranean High-Speed Corridor, in the AVE Sorbas-Barranco de los Gafarillossection, has a length of 7.63 km of high-speed double track with international gauge It is the largest high-speed tunnel in Andalusia, surpassing the Abdalajís tunnels on the Córdoba-Málaga high-speed railway line.
The Sorbas-Barranco de los Gafarillos section of the Sorbas-Barranco de los Gafarillos AVE tunnel is made up of two single-track tubes, each with a free section of 52 m2, for the crossing under the Sierra de la Cabrera, 7,536 m and 7,528 m long respectively Their technical complexity is high as they cross a large massif with gypsiferous materials. 931,800 m3 were excavated with TBM, and 1,742,000 kg of steel fibres were used to build this infrastructure.