Railway infrastructure maintenance and repair
In order to ensure the efficient functioning and safety of the public railway infrastructure for all traffic participants, as well as to enable carriers to provide socially necessary passenger services and uninterrupted rail freight transport, AB LTG Infra continuously invests in the reconstruction and development of the railway infrastructure, thus ensuring the proper maintenance of the infrastructure by providing maintenance services, including road upgrades, bridge repairs, level crossing repairs and upgrades, replacing worn out switches, and repairing and replacing water crossings.
Switch replacement programme
The "Switch Replacement Programme" plans to replace 24 units of switches in 2023 by concluding contractor work agreements. The replacement of 24 switches will reduce the number of switches in poor condition that negatively affect the Company's operations and safety, ensuring the efficient functioning of the public railway infrastructure, the possibility for carriers to provide socially necessary public passenger transport services by rail and the possibility for carriers to carry freight by rail uninterruptedly, to ensure the existing capacity of the infrastructure and to ensure uninterrupted, comfortable and safe traffic at the specified permissible speed.
The programme for the renewal of main railway lines
The "programme for the renewal of main railway lines" plans to repair 51.72 km of the railway track by contracting out works during 2023. The implementation of the programme will reduce the number of defective tracks in the overall road infrastructure and ensure its efficient functioning.
The bridge repair programme
The "Bridge Repair Programme" will prepare 15 technical working projects and repair/reconstruction of 15 bridges.
11 sites are scheduled to be fully contracted by 2023. The remaining 4 sites are scheduled to be renovated in 2024.
Presently out of 11 sites: 2 – completed, 6 – in the final stages of completion, and 3 – scheduled for completion by mid-2023.
The repair of the bridges will reduce the number of road structures in poor condition that negatively affect the Company's operations and safety, ensure the efficient functioning of the public railway infrastructure, enable carriers to provide socially necessary public passenger rail services and to carry freight by rail uninterruptedly, and ensure uninterrupted, comfortable and safe traffic at the speed limit.
Culvert repair programme
The culvert repair programme consists of 12 sites, with 9 sites contracted for contract works and maintenance services in 2022 (2 sites with completed contract works, 4 sites undergoing final works, 3 sites undergoing preparatory works) and 3 sites scheduled for contract works and maintenance services in 2023.
Replacing the culverts with new ones will reduce the number of track structures in poor condition that negatively affect the Company's operations and safety, ensuring the efficient functioning of the public railway infrastructure, ensuring the possibility for carriers to provide socially necessary public passenger transport services by rail and the possibility for carriers to carry freight by rail uninterruptedly, to ensure the existing infrastructure capacities and to ensure uninterrupted, comfortable and safe traffic at the specified permissible speed.
The crossing repair programme
The Crossing Repair Programme plans to select 50 level crossings for the 2020-2030 period based on the crossing ranking methodology, prepare design documentation and carry out repair works by awarding contracts for this work.
The repair of the level crossings, as part of the programme, will reduce the number of level crossings in poor condition that have a negative impact on the Company's operations and safety, and will avoid train speed restrictions within the level crossing boundaries, thus ensuring the efficient and safe functioning of the public railway infrastructure. It will also ensure safe and convenient road traffic through the level crossing and avoid complaints about damage to vehicles and insufficient traffic capacity at level crossings.
