Vitoria-Gasteiz's new railway station is expected to be completed by 2030, after which burial will be resumed

The new railway station in Vitoria-Gasteiz will begin construction by the end of 2027 and will be completed by 2030, as it is expected to accommodate passengers on the high-speed train, as announced by Secretary of State for Transport José Antonio Santano .

At a press conference at the City Hall, together with the mayor, Maider Etxebarria, and the project manager of Adif, Montserrat Rallo, Santano has presented the first phase of the construction of a new station in Vitoria-Gasteiz , the second of which, the burial, will take place later, without a specific date.

The building of thecurrent station, 1934, will be preserved. It has a small portal of 300 square meters, and with its enlargement it will reach 2,000 square meters for travellers, with better platforms and escalators and better connection between Dato Street and the university.

Vitoria-Gasteiz Station currently has 850,000 passengers per year, and when the high-speed train scheduled for 2030 arrives, it is expected to receive 4.7 million passengers per year, more than half of which will be internal traffic.

In the other two capitals of the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV), the most advanced is the Donostia-San Sebastián station, which will soon be completed, while in Bilbao a temporary solution has been chosen to reach Basauri.

In the case of Vitoria-Gasteiz, it is confirmed that the expansion of the station is not a temporary solution, but a first phase of work which, together with the burial, will be completed in a second phase.

Variant

In addition to the expansion of the current station, another important project has been announced today: the construction of a bypass for freight trains to surround the Alavesa capital.

The construction of a freight hub at the Jundiz industrial site outside Vitoria-Gasteiz is currently being completed and the aim will be to create a variant to prevent freight trains from passing through the city centre, that is, through the station.

This new variant will prevent goods from passing through the city centre, and will also significantly reduce the second phase of the station, burial.

There's no exact date, but it usually takes about 15 years (5 years for the construction project and 8 and 10 years for the work) to complete the burial work in a city.

Vitoria-Gasteiz has the advantage that if the variant were built the goods would not enter, the construction phase would be significantly shortened, but no date has been given for the station to be buried.

The works of the first phase, the expansion of the station and the variant for goods, will be paid in full by theMinistry, but no costs have been specified, while the Basque institutions would also contribute to the burial.

Santano has not provided any further details on the connection of the High Speed Train (TAV). "We are making sampling holes, and we will make a decision soon," he said.