![]() ![]() SYSTRA MVA Consulting prepared and submitted the project’s feasibility report to K-Rail in May 2019 and its Detailed Project Report with alignment in March 2020. 5 new townships are planned to be built at Thiruvanathapuram, Kollam, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Thrissur as identified by KRDCL. ![]() The project will be executed by Kerala Rail Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL or K-Rail), a joint venture of the Government of Kerala and Ministry of Railways of the Government of India set up to augment railway infrastructure within Kerala. The construction of the former will be the responsibility of CPK and the modernization of the latter will be the responsibility of PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe.The project’s new alignment will connect 11 districts and aims to ease transportation along the entire north – south length of Kerala and reduce the total travel time to less than 4 hours, compared with the present 12 – 14 hrs it takes via the Indian Railways. The assumed travel time from Warsaw to CPK is 15 minutes and from Łódź – 25 minutes.Įach of the 10 spokes leading to CPK will consist of: new track sections and renovated or modernized parts of the existing infrastructure. As part of the zero stage, which should be ready before CPK Airport becomes operational, 140 km of a new Warsaw-CPK-Łódź line will be built, on which trains are to run at a speed of up to 250 km/hour. The CPK railway program assumes construction of more than 1.6 thousand km of new lines (so-called railway spokes) running from 10 directions to CPK and Warsaw. The plans include the construction of the V4 high-speed cross-border line on the route Budapest-Bratislava-Brno-Warsaw, which will run through Ostrava, Jastrzębie-Zdrój (a new section for which CPK has just received financing under the CEF), Rybnik and Katowice area, and further through WMŚ and the existing Central Trunk Line up to CPK. The implementation of CPK Railway Program will also contribute to shortening railway journeys beyond national borders – to the Czech Republic, but also to Hungary and Slovakia. The new track system will also enable the launch of direct trains from Katowice – through Sosnowiec and Dąbrowa Górnicza, WMŚ and Olkusz – to Kraków, which will mean the mending of historical developments as a result of which today Sosnowiec, with over 200 thousand inhabitants, Dąbrowa Górnicza with 120-thousand inhabitants, and Będzin, with 60-thousand inhabitants, do not have a railway connection to Kraków, located at a distance of 65 km. As a result of these activities, the number of trains running through Katowice and Kraków will increase significantly. 1 hour 35 minutes, and it will take 1 hour 45 minutes to get to Kraków. Thanks to this, the travel from Warsaw to Katowice will take approx. What benefits will WMŚ bring for the passengers? The construction of the hub and the lines leading to it will reduce the travel time of the fastest trains between Kraków and Katowice to 35 minutes. The main investment project in the region will be the Lesser Poland-Silesia Hub (WMŚ), which is to be a new transfer point and long-distance stop for the area of Jaworzno, Chrzanów and Olkusz. The construction of a new line in the area of Jastrzębie-Zdrój, co-financed from CEF, is only one of the elements of the CPK railway program in Silesia and in Lesser Poland. Both parties undertook to jointly determine the exact route and agree the detailed technical parameters of the new routes. The cooperation concerns the coordination of the process of preparation and construction of not only the new cross-border Katowice-Ostrava line, but also Wrocław-Prague line. Since April, CPK and the Czech railway infrastructure SŽDC have been working together in preparation for the construction of the new railway routes. The decision still needs to be approved at the level of the European Commission. Finally, the Commission selected in this category 31 projects for which EUR 117 million had been allocated by Brussels. Their total value amounts to EUR 227 million. In the “Transport” category of CEF, 64 applications were received from different EU countries, of which 56 (including CPK’s) concerned investment projects in cross-border sections within the TEN-T network. ![]()
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