“Ukrzaliznutsa” has carried out 80% of the preparation plan for Euro-2012
As informed “Ukrzaliznutsa” department for communication with the mass media state administration for railway transport of Ukraine “Ukrzaliznutsa” has carried out 80% of the plan of railway transport preparation for hosting final part of Europe Football Championship 2012 in Ukraine. The major “Ukrzaliznutsa” work direction is implementing high-speed train traffic at Ukrainian railways. For the sake of this there was done the set of repair and construction works at such directions as Kiev-Poltava-Krasnograd-Lozovaya-Donetsk, Krasnograd-Dnepropetrovsk, and also Kiev-Zhmerinka-Lvov. There were conducted track repair works, total cost of which makes above 147 mln. hryvnjas.
In particular more than 37 km of tracks were updated, 14.94 km of tracks underwent extensive repairs, medium repair was carried out at 82.925 km of tracks, 89.58 km of tracks underwent preventive maintenance works. This year railway employees have changed 18.3 km of tracks for new ones, and 180 switch sets.
At the same time there were done works on integrated updating of Poltava-Burti-Korustivka railway section to discharge those directions where trains with Euro-2012 fans will go. During the construction of Burti-Korustivka double track together with simultaneous updating of railway tracks and electrification this year there were carried out works on laying 20.57 km new tracks at cost of 29.48 mln hryvnjas. There were modernized 0.875 km of tracks, 3.14 km underwent extensive repairs, 16 old switch sets were changed for new. During electrification of Poltava-Burti-Korustivka section there were mounted 4071 railway poles, 2257 balance levers and 358 hard bars assembled. There were also rolled out 166 km of span wire and 155 km of overhead lines.
Besides, railway employees are planning to build suburb passenger railway stations in Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Lvov for Euro-2012. They also have in mind to carry out repair works of stations in the area of Kiev rail junction and to finish construction of station complex at Darnitsa station.