📋 Tender Overview
A new railway bridge near Cervena nad Vltavou will be built by Metrostav. It won the tender for the construction of a new and removal of the existing technically unsuitable bridge over the Orlicka dam. In the third tender the highest permissible price was 543.9 million crowns without VAT. The winner of the tender offered to complete the required work for 543.6 million crowns. Implementation will begin this summer and should end by October 2024.The original steel structure from 1889 is already in unsatisfactory condition and limits the use of some types of vehicles on the entire Tbor - Psek line. Today the speed on the bridge is significantly limited and its carrying capacity practically excludes the operation of freight trains. The performed static calculation and verification static and dynamic tests confirmed that the construction of the railway bridge has shortcomings given by the year of construction and their adjustment according to the standards valid today is not structurally possible. It will therefore be replaced by a completely new bridge.A reinforced concrete arched load-bearing structure was designed for the new bridge solution. With a span of 156 meters and a rise of 34.7 meters the new bridge will be one of the largest arch bridge works in the Czech Republic. The total length of the bridge reaches 316.3 meters. In the immediate vicinity of the existing bridge a new reinforced concrete bridge will first be built to which traffic will then be transferred. The original structure will be preserved for operation throughout the construction period. This will reduce the necessary closures on the track to the minimum necessary.
