Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration, SZDC, has announced that it has started the the revitlisation of a substantial part of the railway line No. 240. The works will be carried out on o on Zastávka u Brno – Krahulov, a 45.6 km rail section, as part of Brno – Jihlava line.
Increasing line speed up to 100 km/h will be reached by a track geometry modification and increasing transverse superelevation in curves. In some railway sections, reconstruction of the railway superstructure and rehabilitation of the railway substructure will be executed. Safeguarding of railway crossings being a restrictive speed factor in some sections will be increased and higher operation safety will be strengthened by new signalling equipment.
The total estimated investment costs of the construction designated as Revitalisation of the line Okříšky – Zastávka u Brna amount to CZK 248 million (EUR 9.2 million), VAT excluded. The project will be submitted for co-financing by the European Union from its Cohesion Fund under the Operational Programme Transport – OPT 2. Financing from national resources will be provided by the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure. The construction’s supplier is the company Strabag Rail a.s.
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