The newly built Dynín train stop was a venue for a ceremonial finish of modernization of a corridor track in South Bohemia on Monday, June 29. Construction, on 4-km long section of which division had participated since June 2018, brings higher speed and ETCS security. Also commercial director Jiří Tesař spoke at the event.
On Tuesday, June 23, works on an almost 15 km-long section of the Central Bohemia railway track were officially commenced. In addition to division 3, which will use its new machines, divisions 2 and 4 will be participating in the large construction. A ceremony with the traditional tapping of the rail, which took place in the Praha-Horní Počernice station, featured general director Ondřej Fuchs.
The construction of the double-track Milochov Tunnel in Slovakia, which is a part of the modernized Púchov – Považská Teplá railway line, is in progress. Division 1 started the complicated excavation three years ago and about 200 meters of the 1,861 meter-long tube remain. Breakthrough is expected at the end of August. The excavation of the emergency tunnel was completed in June.
Since last September, division 3 has been participating in the modernization and electrification of a seven-kilometer long regional railway line, a branch of the main Brno–Břeclav track. The project features railway technologies, reconstruction of the track substructure and superstructure, and both stations. Construction should be finished by summer this year.
Division 2 will repair the building of Bohemia Restaurant on the Exhibition Grounds in Prague. The Neo-Renaissance building, now listed, was built for the Jubilee Exhibition of 1891. The reconstruction, which will start in June, should be completed in one year.
On February 27, daughter company SBT Sverige signed a contract for an extension of the blue metro line into the Stockholm suburbs. The Järfälla project involves construction a four-kilometer-long section, including the bored stations Barkabystaden and Barkarby. The construction should start this June and finish in 2023.
Division 2 is working on three new contracts. The revitalization of the Lhotka outdoor swimming pool in Prague will bring more comfort to visitors. Also in the capital, building of the State Printing Works of Securities, built in 1928, will get a new roof. The third construction is the extension of the rowing club in Brandýs nad Labem, with a new boathouse and garage.
After completion of the Veddesta access tunnel, the daughter company SBT Sverige was awarded three more contracts within the Stockholm metro extension. The Sundstabacken access tunnel and the Hammarby work tunnel will make possible the lengthening of the Blue Line, and the Hagastaden access tunnel will be excavated as a part of the new Yellow Line.
Two new railway machines delivered by Plasser & Theurer, a 09-4×4/4S Dynamic automatic tamping machine and a USP 2000 C2 ballast plough, were put into service for the first time at the end of February at Beroun train station. The operators of these modern machines had been trained in Linz;the plough crew already worked last year in Přerov.