Renfe Fabricación y Mantenimiento has launched a tender for the construction of a new maintenance depot at Móstoles-El Soto, intended to service the rolling stock operating on Madrid Cercanías’ C-5 line. The investment totals €42.7 million, with an 18-month construction period.
The facility will support the new Class 453 trains, which the operator plans to deploy on this route to replace the veteran Class 446 units. The trains are high-capacity, largely level-boarding units built by Stadler as a hybrid between the FLIRT and KISS platforms.
The depot will feature three covered maintenance roads of 200 metres each, an office building, and — on the exterior — tracks with technical platforms, a wheel lathe and a washing plant.
The project forms part of Renfe’s Integrated Depot and Maintenance Plan 2025–2030, backed by over €1 billion, and of the C-5 line transformation plan.
That scheme carries a budget of €1.35 billion and aims to boost capacity on the line by 60%. The C-5 handles 72 million passengers a year — nearly four in every ten journeys across the entire Madrid Cercanías network.
Among the headline works is the extension of platforms to 200 metres at several stations along the corridor between Atocha and Móstoles-El Soto, as well as the redevelopment of Móstoles-El Soto station itself.