The project consisting in the modernisation of the railway energy network in Romania includes the acquisition and installation of new electrification equipments in four electrification centres, the acquisition of overhead line maintenance vehicles, the contracting of consultancy services for the supervision of equipments. The modernisation of networks aims at making Romanian railway traffic efficient and at dropping railway traction and power network maintenance at CFR SA.
A method for modernising the power supply equipments of the railway network consists in the rehabilitation works carried out on the pan-European corridors. This category includes a number of 36 substations on the main lines in Romania, the related sectioning and sub-sectioning posts and 13 railway energy dispatcher points. “Rehabilitation and re-technologisation works for these equipments were finalized on section Bucharest-Câmpina and are close to finalization on sections Câmpina – Predeal and Bucharest-Constanţa, in conformity with governmental agreements”, underlined Ionel Truică, the General Manager of CFR Electrificare, during the debates of the Railway Days 2011 Summit.
CFR Electrificare also plans to moder-nise the power network using foreign loans, more precisely a EBRD loan estimated at EUR 22.5 Million for the financing of the Railway Network Modernisation Project whose main goal is the acquisition of 12 catenary maintenance vehicles necessary for the maintenance and exploitation of overhead lines, a project already fina-lized. Another project under development refers to the modernisation of the power supply equipments in the area of the following electrification points: Timişoara, Caransebeş, Craiova and Târgu Jiu.
On the long term, CFR Electrificare plans to electrify the 179-km long Tecuci – Socola – Cristeşti-Jijia line at a cost of EUR 180 Million, the 43-km long Constanţa – Mangalia line (part of the pan-European Corridor IV), modernisation works requiring around EUR 110 Million and electrification works on the 56-km long Timişoara – Stamora Moraviţa line and modernisation works requiring around EUR 52.4 Million.
Other projects, just as important, include the electrification of the 157.9-km long Cluj Napoca – Oradea – Episcopia Bihor at a cost of around EUR 565 Million, the electrification of the line 83-km long Bucharest (railway ring) – Giurgiu (via Videle) line at a cost of EUR 322 Million and the 66-km long Bucharest Progresu (railway ring) – Giurgiu line at a cost of EUR 649 Million. These two lines are part of the pan-European Corridor IX.
The electrification of the 341-km long line Bucharest (Chitila) – Piteşti – Râmnicu Vâlcea – Sibiu – Vinţu de Jos, part of the TEN-T network, is another long-run project requiring EUR 1.3 Billion, as well as the electrification of the 149.7-km long Ploieşti Sud – Armăşeşti – Urziceni – Slobozia – Ţăndărei and Slobozia – Ciulniţa alternative line, for which the company will spend EUR 107 Million.
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