Contracting Authority: STRABAG RAIL Consortium, a Company established under the Obligations and Contracts Act
The project covers the open track section Hitrino – Pliska, which is located on the ninth main railway line Ruse – Kaspichan.
It provides for restoration of the normal operation in the open track section from km 110+781 to km 129+161 with a length of 18,380 m and reaching the design speed Vd=80km/h. The project also includes:
- mechanised renewal of the track grid (rails and sleepers),
- mechanised screening of the ballast prism,
- construction of new ditches;
- cleaning and rehabilitation of drainage facilities, hard shoulders, berms and slopes,
- strengthening, grouting and lining of existing stone retaining walls,
- major clearance and removal of shrubs and trees.