📋 Tender Overview
During this year work should begin on the double-track Brank Bridge which is located between the Prague-Radotn and Prague-Kr stations. Currently therefore the Railway Administration has announced a tender for the construction contractor the estimated total cost reaches CZK 2.25 billion. The implementation of the project will allow the diversion of trains during the planned reconstruction of the railway bridges under Vyehrad.Branice Bridge also called the Bridge of Intelligence dates back to the middle of the last century. Railway operation on it started in 1964. Although it was built as a double track the builders eventually laid only one track on it. At present it is mainly used by freight trains.The aim of the construction is mainly to build a second track in the section from the Tunel branch which is located in front of the Branice Bridge to the Prague-Kr station. At the same time the Spoilov branch will be built which will allow trains to move from one track to another.The work will also include the rehabilitation of the Brank Bridge the construction of a new bridge over doln Street and the construction of technological buildings in Kr and Spoilov. A new platform 220 metres long will be built at the hitherto single-track Praha-Kaerov stop and a new footbridge will provide a transfer to the metro and public transport buses.Construction is expected to start this July the work will take 13 months. Their completion will allow the diversion of trains between the main and Smchov stations during the reconstruction of the bridges under Vyehrad.
