České dráhy (ČD) awarded Chládek a Tintěra Havlíčkův and TSS Grade a contract for the construction of a new repair hall at Brod depot of rolling stock in Havlíčkův Brod. CZK 235 million (EUR 9.4 million) is the value of the contract under which construction will be started this autumn.
The new hall will serve primarily to ensure high-quality servicing of the new complete RegioPanter and RegioFox units.
“We will start building just such a new hall in the autumn at the Havlíčkův Brod depot, which serves also as a home station to modern RegioPanter and RegioFox regional units. The new hall will allow us to repair them faster and return them to operation for passengers more quickly,” said Deputy Director General of ČD for Servicing, Michal Kraus.
The through-pass double-track maintenance hall will have a total length of 67 metres. It will be equipped with a double-girder overhead crane with a load bearing capacity of up to 12.5 tonnes, service ducts, viewing platforms for easy access to the roof of the train set and visual inspection of the entire train. Electromechanical foot lifts for lifting the rolling stock, as well as an exhaust extraction system, will also be an integral part of the hall equipment. In the side extension of the hall, there will be, for example, facilities for employees or storage space.
The new repair hall at Brod depot “will be used for comprehensive operational treatment of vehicles and for so-called corrective maintenance, such as repairs of damaged parts and components of various nature. This includes appropriate periodic inspections of bogies, doors, braking systems, as well as repairs for doors, air-conditioning and other parts of trains that are defective,” said Martin Elstner, Director of the Regional Maintenance Centre “East”, under which the service facility in Havlíčkův Brod falls.
The depot in Havlíčkův Brod serves for train connections throughout the entire Vysočina (Highlands) Region and also in neighbouring regions – in Pardubice, Central Bohemian or South Moravian Regions. The technicians working here take care not only of the new 847 RegioFox diesel multiple units, but also of the 650 RegioPanter electric multiple units, 844 RegioShark diesel multiple units and 841 RegioSpider diesel multiple units.
Last year, České dráhy also opened a new rolling stock washing line in the depot in Havlíčkův Brod.
ČD will continue to modernise its servicing infrastructure also at other locations in the Czech Republic. These include in particular the construction of maintenance halls, washing lines or sanitary tracks. “We are planning other similar buildings for example in České Budějovice or Olomouc. In May we also started the construction of a new repair hall at the maintenance centre in Cheb,” the Deputy Director General Kraus explained.
The contract for the new repair hall in Cheb was awarded to TSS Grade and Berger Bohemia companies which will complete the project in 2026.
The new repair hall at Brod depot is the next step of ČD’s strategy to modernise and expand its repair and maintenance facilities with announced investments of CZK 12 billion (EUR 480 million). The programme will improve the quality of servicing of rolling stock.
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