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Technical back-up facilities for Koleje Małopolskie put into service

News date: January 23, 2023
Technical back-up facilities for Koleje Małopolskie put into service

In January, the official opening of the Technical and Maintenance Facility was held in Kraków. It was completed by the consortium of Budimex (consortium leader) and KZN Rail within the investment called ‘Design and construction of technical facilities for the operation of the railway rolling stock at the Kraków Towarowy station’ for Koleje Małopolskie.

 

The basic function of the Technical and Maintenance Facility is to ensure a stopping place for the Company’s rail vehicles and their servicing and maintenance.

 

“The operations of this facility will make it possible to perform maintenance, servicing and inspection activities in a timely and planned manner, and to transfer the rolling stock for further use, in order to fulfil the assumed maintenance tasks for the Company’s own needs, without the necessity to drive to remote facilities. Ultimately, it will be also possible to provide services within the Service Infrastructure Facility to other railway carriers in the scope of technical service of railway vehicles and other services”, says Jakub Nagraba, Director of the General Construction Division of Budimex SA.

 

The investment was implemented in the ‘Design and Build’ formula in a consortium with KZN Rail Sp. z o.o. Budimex SA’s participation in the consortium amounted to 57%, while the value of the entire contract was PLN 79,338,000

Within the contract, the following was completed:

  • implementation of the construction and executive project together with obtaining administrative decisions;
  • construction of the building of the technical and installation back-up facility: repair hall with the office and employee facility, workshop and warehouse facility, block train washing line and technical facility with systems and equipment;
  • construction of a new system of stabling and manoeuvring tracks together with the overhead contact line and the Rail Traffic Control System;
  • performance of land and external infrastructure development, including: construction of the fire tank and retention reservoir, performance of power connections and transformer station, construction of internal roads and car parks, etc.;
  • comprehensive delivery and assembly of the facility equipment, including: construction of the block train portal washing line using a closed water circuit, system for disposing of sewerage from trainsets, delivery and assembly of devices, in particular: underfloor wheel lathe, trap door, laser system for measuring wheels, lifting jacks for rail vehicles, wheel load measurement system, sanding station, de-icing station, station for repairing pantographs, delivery of the road-rail vehicle for pulling the LokoTractor vehicles.

 

Budimex is one of the leaders in railway construction in Poland. The company is currently undertaking such contracts as the new Warszawa Zachodnia station, constituting one of the largest PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA investment projects. The General Contractor is also responsible for the construction of the Gdynia Port railway station and the Ełk station as well as the Czechowice-Dziedzice station. In the past two years, Budimex also completed the modernisation of the Warsaw-Lublin railway line, the E59 Rokietnica-Wronki section and the E30 Trzebinia-Krzeszowice section.