📋 Tender Overview
The Railway Administration has selected a contractor to update the documentation for the zoning of the new line construction between Prague-Smchov and Beroun which is largely conducted in the tunnel. It will be the company SUDOP Prague which offered a price of 90.3 million crowns. The estimated value of the contract was 119.9 million crowns.The main benefits of the new line include reducing the travel time of trains in the section Prague-Smchov - Beroun to about 12 minutes speeding up and improving the regional connection between Prague and Beroun and the entire southwestern part of the Central Bohemian Region and last but not least speeding up and improving national and international route Prague - Pilsen - Nuremberg Munich. Relieving the current congested railway along the Berounka from long-distance passenger and freight transport will make it possible to increase the frequency of suburban trains.The new double-track line will start at the modified exit from the Prague-Smchov station. In the Barrandov area the tracks sink into a 24.7-kilometer-long tunnel and end in Beroun on a new bridge overpass over the Berounka valley. On the Prague side a branch to the Branick Bridge will be built in the direction of Prague-Kr. The new tunnel will be designed for a maximum speed of 200 km h.The excavation will be largely carried out with full-profile TBM tunneling machines at a depth of up to 150 meters below the surface. Construction work is expected to begin in 2028 and complete seven years later.
