On 24 September, the Czech Republic’s Railway Infrastructure Administration completed the construction of traction substations Říkovice, Střelná, Ústí u Vsetína and Valašské Meziříčí. The new converter stations are crucial for ensuring safety and reliable operation on the respective line sections. The need to implement these constructions resulted in particular from increasing requirements to power railway lines safely.
“The traction converter stations were equipped mostly with obsolete technology and their technical state did not correspond to European parameters and standards. The new traction converter stations will ensure a reliable power source; moreover they will increase railway operation safety as they can also partially power lines not directly adjacent to them in case of emergency”, said Mr Pavel Surý, Director General of the Railway Infrastructure Administration.
The object of all four projects is a reconstruction of separate technological equipment at traction substations and service buildings, area low tension service lines, lighting and drainage. Part of the construction also includes adapting access roads, strengthened surfaces and laying communication cables.
Complete reconstruction and modernisation of these buildings and installations contribute to increasing the traction substations’ output due to higher requirements for supplying power to feeding of railway lines. The projects’ implementation also complies with demand for increased reliability of railway transport in the given line sections in any circumstances, be it more intense operation, unfavourable climate conditions or failures of neighbouring traction substations.
The total cost of the construction designated as “Increasing traction output of Říkovice traction substation” amounts to 327,082,219 CZK (excluding VAT). The project was co-financed by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund under the Operational Programme Transport up to an amount of 250,188,489 CZK.
The total cost of the construction designated as “Increasing traction output of Střelná traction substation amounts to 310,287,953 CZK (excluding VAT). The project was co-financed by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund under the Operational Programme Transport up to an amount of 239,444,323 CZK.
The total cost of the construction designated as “Increasing traction output of Ústí u Vsetína traction substation amounts to 240,484,556 CZK (excluding VAT). The project was co-financed by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund under the Operational Programme Transport up to an amount of 173,842,331 CZK.
The total cost of the construction designated as “Increasing traction output of Valašské Meziříčí traction substation amounts to 233,129,226 CZK (excluding VAT). The project was co-financed by the European Union’s Cohesion Fund under the Operational Programme Transport up to an amount of 174,741,023 CZK.
The investor of all the construction is the Czech Republic’s Railway Infrastructure Administration, state organisation. The projects are financed nationally by the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure.
(Source: SZDC)
