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Date Published: 25/11/2021

ARCHIVED - Alicante Tram line connecting Benidorm and Denia will be operational in 2022

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Line 9 modernisation and improvements will be "acclerated" with a transfer in Teulada in the Marina Alta, Alicante province

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Alicante Tram line connecting Benidorm and Denia will be operational in 2022

The modernisation of Alicante Tram Line 9, which connects Benidorm with Denia, will be accelerated and the entire section will be operational before the end of 2022, president of the Valencia region has assured today.

Ximo Puig stressed that the recovery of this service will improve the connection between the towns of Marina Alta and Marina Baixa, and added that until the works are finished, a transfer will be made in Teulada.

Until now, Valencia's public railway company, Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), had considered restoring the three centenary viaducts along this line: the Quisi, Algar and Mascarat.

The works on the Quisi viaduct will begin in early 2022, but the works on the Algar and Mascarat would have delayed the restoration of the Line 9 service to Denia until the end of 2023.

So, in order to get the entire section operational as soon as possible, FGV raised the possibility of refurbishing old lines which have been out of use for years, which will be in operation until the works on the three viaducts are completed.

In this way, "rail traffic could be re-established earlier than expected, by the end of 2022".

What this means is that trains currently running on Line 9 from Benidorm to Teulada will run along the route and over the viaducts, as they have been doing up to now.

Once these trains reach Teulada, a transfer will be made to the dual trains, which, assures FGV, "will not entail any additional waiting time to finish the route and reach Denia".

Alicante Tram Line 9 stopped running between Calpe and Denia in July 2016, when the regional government was forced to close the line between Benidorm and Denia due to a "lack of safety guarantees" caused by "a lack of government investment in the line for more than 20 years".

In recent years, the Generalitat has invested a total of 150 million euros in the province of Alicante to renovate and modernise Line 9 and has gradually recovered the railway circulation in different sections.

This began with modernising the line as far as Benissa and Teulada and, from next year, the connection will run as far as Gata de Gorgos.

Image: GVA

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