Poland’s Council of Ministers has approved the country’s biggest-ever railway investment programme; this will entail spending some 16 billion euros by 2023 to upgrade the Polish rail network.
Key projects include greater implementation of ERTMS (European Railway Traffic Management System) and increasing the number of routes that support line speeds of 160kph.
PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe (
www.plk-sa.pl), which manages Poland’s infrastructure, said tenders worth 2.6 billion euros would be announced later this year for schemes to upgrade several key routes, including Warsaw-Lublin, Wroclaw-Poznan and Warsaw-Poznan. A number of projects will be co-financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility.