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Polish Railways reveals 6-year investment plan

PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge 23.06.2014 11:05
Polish Railways aims to invest 50 billion zloty (12 billion euro) over the next six years on modernising rail lines and platforms.

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About 40 billion zloty (9.6 billion euro) will come from EU funds, according to chairman of PKP Remigiusz Paszkiewicz, who has said that a chief priority will be improving the infrastructure for freight trains.

“We want to decisively speed up such trains,” Paszkiewicz affirmed.

At present, freight trains in Poland rarely exceed 30 km per hour, whereas in most EU countries similar services typically travel at over 50 km per hour.

Paszkiewicz said that owing to the new investments, freight trains will be able to travel as fast as 120 km per hour in some places.

“Over the last 10 years we have managed to modernise over 5000 km of tracks, of which more than half was done in 2012-2013,” he said.

One of the biggest projects at hand is the modernisation of the freight line between Lower Silesia and Szczecin on the Baltic coast.

Other costly investments will take place in Warsaw, where the Dworzec Zachodnia (Western Station) is being rebuilt and the tracks upgraded. Three other stations in the capital, Dworzec Centralny, Dworzec Wchodni and Dworzec Gdanski (Central, Eastern and Gdansk) will also be upgraded. (nh)

Source: PAP

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