Warsaw. Modernization of the West Railway Station. The railwaymen will open another platform and a footbridge from the Tunelowa side
Railwaymen summed up the progress of the Western Railway Station. Work on the platforms and roofing are underway. A dozen or so meters below the hollow station is a tunnel in which trams will run in the future. The shared platform and the renovated footbridge from the Tunnel side were repaired for the repair.
As part of the investment of additional platforms, all platforms, including social ones, will be covered. At the construction site of the hall, reaching the level you are already designing, the contractor also installs tracks, turnouts and control systems. – Every day there are changes on this site. It is a huge service management of employees of many employees. Performed “on the move”. It is worth remembering that the Warszawa Zachodnia station is in the next five, the railway station, cable car, cable car, cable car, cable car, railway station, cable car, station, station, station at the Ministry of Infrastructure Andrzej Bittel.
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The huge roof will be covered with photovoltaic panels
Railwaymen describe on Fridays that information on the platforms, benches and tables are published. Next to the Power Plant, elements of the carport – platform hall are set up. The preparation of platforms 6, 7 and platform 8, i.e. a new additional platform from the side of Wola, is advanced.
The roof of the hall is made in 30 percent. The structures of the High Roof can already be seen above the three platforms under construction. The contractor is placing further elements on 27 pillars. – The steel structure already weighs two thousand tons. Inside there are skylights with the use of photovoltaic cells. As a result, 30% of the station will be powered by technology obtained from fossil fuels, said Jakub Tomkiewicz, contract director at Budimex. Phototic panels have 12,000 meters of the institute – to the surface of training pitches. As railwaymen point out, internal spaces complemented by natural light thanks to skylights. Green spaces with shrubs are planned at the station.
Travelers will use the new platform of Warsaw West as early as in. At number 6. Ireneusz Merchel, President of the Management Board of PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA, assures that “every month, the 7th and 8th platforms will be put into operation”. In order to prepare for the task, a footbridge for. – Putting the footbridge over to enable the passage from the Tunelowa side to the station system and access to the newly opened platforms – said Jakub Tomkiewicz.
They are building a tram tunnel under the station
– Reconstruction of the Warszawa Zachodnia station, works in the Warsaw area. Follow-up services. Works next to trains plying – to act for infrastructure infrastructure and contractor. We want to stop, how to ensure that it travels and prepares the option prepared in the future in Warsaw and on long-distance routes – said Ireneusz Merchel.
At the test station. 29 junctions arranged on forums and nearly four kilometers of new tracks. Poles and gates are set up for the traction network. Building the underground structure – the platform of the lines to the platforms 6, 7, 8 – the flooring is made. In the new building of the Local Control Center (LCS). New systems and computers for train traffic management.
As Ireneusz Merchel noted, “there are over 70 subcontracting companies working on the construction site, over half a thousand people and 150 units of equipment”. Platforms 6, 7 and new 8 are under construction. The current traffic organization in the station is maintained. Access is provided from Aleje Jerozolimskie. Due to the fact that from the outside it is temporarily constructed from production, there is a platform on the perimeter line. Trains from Warszawa Gdańska start and end at the Warszawa Wola stop.
Under the station at a depth of 15 meters, and also a depth tunnel. – My contemplation, and it depends on the city when we build a tram network and leave for employees. It is a municipal investment – said the president of PKP.
Modernization of the West Railway Station
Ultimately, the yard for travelers will have sheltered platforms, escalators, a windy system that will have information and a long way. It will be easier to combine agglomeration and long-distance travel with public transport.
PKP Polskie Li Kolejowe SA in real terms about two billion zlotys “Work on the middle line in Warsaw for the project for Warsaw East – Warsaw West”. A project applying for EU funds from the Cohesion Fund under the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Program.
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