The 19-mile new prepare route has been given the inexperienced gentle.
The 19-mile new prepare route has been given the inexperienced gentle (Picture: Govern de les Illes Balears/SFM)
A 19-mile, partly underground new prepare line in Majorca has been given closing approval by the Balearic Islands authorities and can join the island’s capital with its airport and one other main vacationer city. The brand new Servicios Ferroviarios de Mallorca (SFM) line can have over six of its 19-mile size cross underground and can have 13 stations, connecting Palma, Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI) and Llucmajor on the south coast.
The brand new railway line, which is anticipated to be operational in 2032, will join the Balearic capital with Llucmajor in half-hour, with Son Llàtzer Hospital in six minutes and with the airport in 12 minutes, terminating at a station to be built-in into Son Sant Joan. “We wish public transport to be an alternative choice to personal transport,” Minister for Housing, Territory and Mobility, José Luis Mateo, mentioned at a press convention outlining the plans on Wednesday (April 15). He mentioned the brand new prepare line represents a “decisive step” in that challenge.
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The prepare line can have 13 stations (Picture: Govern de les Illes Balears/SFM)
The Director-Normal for Mobility, Lorena del Valle, defined that the brand new prepare line can have 13 stations – 10 of them in Palma and one other three in Llucmajor – connecting residential and industrial areas in addition to the airport. The stations in Palma will likely be Conservatori, Son Costa, Miquel Dolç, Son Güells, Hospital Son Llàtzer, Coll d’en Rabassa, Aeroport, Son Oms, La Porcincúla and Bellavista-Ses Cadenes, while these in Llucmajor will likely be s’Arenal, Son Noguera and the station within the city centre itself.
A complete of 20 trains will likely be bought for the road and it’s anticipated to hold 8.5 million passengers every year – a 73% enhance in passenger numbers on the Majorcan rail community in comparison with the 11.6 million recorded in 2025.
This isn’t the one rail infrastructure challenge underway in Majorca. Mr Mateo additionally confirmed that on the present tempo, the regional authorities maintains its forecast that work on the road between Palma and Llucmajor will start in 2028. He additionally highlighted airport authority Aena’s willingness to finalise the placement of the Palma Airport station, while Ms del Valle added that the underground route will likely be possible because of its building utilizing a tunnel boring machine.
In October 2024, the Balearic president, Marga Prohens, offered the railway challenge with a funds of €690million (£600million), overlaying building, the acquisition of recent trains and the constructing of workshops. Development is anticipated to start in 2028 and final roughly 4 years.
Majorca, the biggest of the Balearic Islands, has a mixed rail community of roughly 55 miles (88km), together with each prepare and metro observe, operated by Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM) and the personal Sóller Railway. The system consists of electrical commuter traces from Palma to Inca, Sa Pobla, and Manacor, plus the historic 17-mile vacationer prepare between Palma and Sóller.
Dwelling to only beneath a million individuals, Majorca welcomes over 13 million vacationers yearly (13.4 million in 2024), with the bulk visiting from Germany and the UK.
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