📋 Tender Overview
On 24.06.2025 the machine started: Jadwiga began drilling the longest railway tunnel in Poland, over 2.5 thousand. tonnes TBM Jadwiga began building a railway tunnel near Pisarzowa. Over the next year, a new facility will be built with a length of almost 4 km, which will shorten travel by train between Limanowa and Nowy Sacz. This will be the first of 16 such buildings planned as part of the Podleze-Piekielko project, the largest investment of Polish railway lines in the south of the country. The task is co -financed by the European Union as part of the National Plan of Reconstruction and Increased immunity. The drilling of the railway tunnel between Mecina and Murdarka appeared. They are implemented by a larger one of the two tunnels working in this place. Jadwiga weighs over 2.5 thousand tons and is 90 meters long. A real challenge for the machine and specialists operating it - there is exactly 3750 meters of an underground route to be made. The object with a diameter of almost 11 meters will be built step by step, with millimeter precision. The TBM disc with the help of a rotating forehead, equipped with steel teeth, simultaneously selects soil and assembles concrete walls of the tunnel. In the back room, heavy machines and the industrial queue supporting them remove extracted spoil, and in the opposite direction they transport concrete fragments of the tunnel walls that are formed non -stop in the prefabrication hall located in the neighborhood. The entire operation is scheduled for about 10 months of continuous work.- Ambitious task in front of railwaymen and contractors. The next months are hard work on the construction of the longest railway tunnel in Poland. I am glad that the investment is implemented in accordance with the adopted plan. Thanks to it, the region will gain new opportunities for economic and social development - says Dariusz Klimczak, minister of infrastructure. A total of two tunnels will be created. In addition to the trains facility, from the end of March the smaller evacuation tunnel has been building TBM Kinga. At that time, the machine has already made 420 meters, and this number is growing overnight. These will be the first tunnels made for the Podleze-Piekielko project. In total, as part of the largest investment of the Polish Railway Lines in the south of Poland, 20 such buildings will be built. Trains will run in 16 of them, with a total length of almost 21 km. The remaining 4 will be evacuation tunnels, and their length will reach about 10 km.- This is one of the most difficult projects currently implemented by Polish railway lines. We build tracks in a completely new course, in a very demanding environment. We are preparing for the implementation of subsequent sections of this largest railway investment in the south of the country - says Marcin Mochocki, a member of the board of Polish Kolejowe S.A. S.A./ Gulermak Agir Sanayi Invest Ve Taahhut A.s./Gulermak Sp. z o.o., and its cost is over PLN 1.9 billion. This is one of the four parts of the Podleze-Piekielko project on which construction works are already being carried out. Others are the Limanowa station and the episodes of Kneel Sacz and Chabowka-Rebka Zaryte. In progress, there are tender procedures for four other fragments of this line: Rabka Zaryte-Masana Dolna-Masana (Kasina Wielka), Szczyrzyc-Tymbark, Tymbark-Limanowa and Podleze-Gdow.Porzekt Podleze-Piekielko consists of modernization and electrification of 75 km of the Chabowka-Niecz Sacz route and construction of 58 km of the new line, connecting the bottom of Tymbark and Mszana Dolna. Thanks to this, a new connection will be created, which will facilitate the communication of Krakow with Podhale and Sadecczyzna. The fastest trains will cover the Krakow -Nowa Sacz route in about 60 minutes. However, a journey from the capital of Lesser Poland to Zakopane will take about 90 minutes. Fragments of this investment are financed as part of the National Plan of Rebuilding and Increase Charges. More about the project:
