STRABAG Awarded Railway Construction Contract in Slovakia

STRABAG s.r.o., the Slovak subsidiary of construction group STRABAG SE, along with consortium partners EUROVIA CS a.s., Subterra a.s. and AŽD Praha s.r.o., was awarded the contract to build the new Žilina-Teplička railway station and to modernize the infrastructure of one of the most important Slovak railway junctions for a total of around € 323 million. Work over the total length of 16.3 kilometers is expected to last 48 months.

Other projects in the region include the modernization of two sections of the Czech railway network with lengths of 11 kilometers and 12 kilometers, respectively.

The construction project covers five sections of the line and includes:

• four stations with barrier-free platform access
• three branch lines
• four line and two station signaling control systems
• 200 secured switching points
• 35 bridge structures
• 50,144 meters of track and track structure
• 509,830 m3 of track foundation earthworks
• 52,534 m2 of noise barriers
• new signaling and communication technology

The comprehensive technical modernizations will help to increase safety on the line while enabling trains to reach a maximum speed of up to 160 kilometers/hour.

The Žilina railway junction in northern Slovakia, near the borders of the Czech Republic and Poland, is part of the Trans-European Transport Networks and belongs to Pan-European Transport Corridor V, which covers 3,270 kilometers of rail and 2,850 kilometers of road leading from Venice through Koper, Ljubljana, Budapest and Uzhhorod to Lviv, with a branch line from Bratislava to Uzhhorod via Žilina. The current section of the line connects with two previously modernized railway lines (Puchov–Žilina and Žilina–Krasno nad Kysucou).