JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” (“UZ”) plans to complete the construction of the European gauge (1435 mm) “Chop-Uzhgorod” by July 2025, the press service of the company reported in the Telegram channel on Wednesday.
According to the company, the construction project provides for the construction of 22 km of railway track of European standard, reconstruction of artificial structures, facilities and engineering networks, as well as equipping the tracks with two-way semi-automatic blocking and microprocessor-based dispatch centralization devices.
It is noted that the cost of the project is UAH 1.3 billion, 50% financed from the EU Connecting Europe Facilit (CEF).
“UZ” specified that currently railroaders are assembling at their own facilities rail sleeper grating. The repair of artificial constructions along the site is also in progress.
Railroaders have already completed a set of preparatory works, including cleaning the site of construction from the thistles, bushes, completed the repair of track number 2 of the station “Strumkovka” for the movement of railroad construction equipment.
As reported, Ukrzaliznytsia received the opportunity to implement the project of construction of 22 km of Euro track “Chop-Uzhgorod” as a result of successful participation in the competitive selection of CEF projects in 2022.