Czech railway infrastructure manager, SŽDC, awarded Metroprojekt Praha and Sudop Praha consortium the contract for the Project Intent and the Documentation for territorial proceedings concerning modernization of a key section between Praha-Výstaviště (Prague Exposition Area) and Praha-Veleslavín Station. The offer of the consortium has a value of CZK 64 million (EUR 2.5 million).
The awarded contract is a step forward for the construction of a railway connection to Václav Havel Airport, the international airport of Prague.
Regarding the construction of the section between the newly built railway stop Praha-Výstaviště and Praha-Veleslavín Station is the most complicated because the trains will be running exclusively underground, only a short section from Praha-Výstaviště through Stromovka Park being constructed at surface, Mojmír Nejezchleb, Deputy Director General of SŽDC for Infrastructure Modernization explained.
Following a current short tunnel at the edge of Stromovka Park, the new route will run underground up to the recessed station Praha-Dejvice which will be relocated to the immediate vicinity of the current Hradčanská Station vestibule on the Prague metro A line. It will then continue by a double-track recessed tunnel to the Bruska water reservoir, further by a pair of tunnels to the Veleslavín heating plant and by a connecting double-track recessed tunnel up to Praha-Veleslavín Station. The planned tracks will allow closing all railway crossings in this section.
While the railway on the territory of Prague uses a 3 kV DC current power feeding, a 25 kV AC current traction power system will be introduced in the line section from Praha-Dejvice to country’s most important airport and to the biggest city in Central Bohemia based on a decision taken this January.
In the future, practically all electrified lines on the SŽDC network will be adapted to this system which is currently being used in the southern part of our country.
The feasibility study for the railway connection from Praha to Ruzyně Airport and to Kladno in its R1spěš variant was approved by the Central Committee of the Ministry of Transport in July 2015. The study is currently being updated and should be finalized this December.
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