Nevomo (formerly Hyper Poland), a company developing ‘pioneering magrail technology’ that enables vehicles to reach speeds of 550kph on existing railway tracks, has signed an agreement with CIECH Sarzyna, part of the CIECH Group.

Nevomo will lease land and infrastructure from the company, allowing it to build a full-scale 750m-long test track. Work will begin in summer 2021 and the track will be the longest passive magnetic levitation test facility in Europe.

CIECH Sarzyna will provide Nevomo with access to the area — along with the railway track and the adjacent infrastructure — in the Podkarpacie region of Poland. On the test track, vehicles with ‘a linear drive system and passive levitation’ will be tested, along with power electronic systems for powering and controlling a multi-segment linear motor.

Pawel Radziszewski, Nevomo’s CTO and a board member, said: “The construction of the 1:1 scale test track on the site provided by CIECH Sarzyna is another milestone in the development of the magrail technology.

“The successful undertaking of these tests opens the path to pilot implementations, which are planned for the years 2022–2024. Magrail technology is expected to be technically fully operational by 2025.”

The advantage of the magrail technology, which uses the hyperloop concept (magnetic vacuum rail system), is the possibility of integration with the existing railway infrastructure without the need to make changes to the rolling stock.

The track design is co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund under the Intelligent Development Programme. The project is being implemented as part of the competition of the National Centre for Research and Development, in Poland.