PLK Awards €302.7m Contract for New Railway Bridge Over Vistula River

Poland's national railway infrastructure manager Polskie Linie Kolejowe (PLK) has signed a €302.7m (PLN 1.3bn) contract with the Intop/Trakcja/WKS Grybów consortium for the modernisation of the Czachówek Wschodni–Pilawa route, centred on a new double-track railway bridge over the Vistula at Góra Kalwaria.

The project aims to modernise a key corridor in central Poland and improve capacity on the route. The Vistula, Poland's longest river at over 1,000 km, is crossed by multiple rail corridors serving freight and passenger services between the country's eastern and western regions.

The contract value of PLN 1.3bn represents one of PLK's larger single-structure investments in recent infrastructure programmes. PLK, the state-owned manager of Poland's 19,000 km conventional rail network, oversees track, signalling and civil structures including bridges and tunnels.

The new crossing — around 630 m long and double-track — is scheduled for completion in 2029, with co-financing from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF2).

Poland's rail infrastructure investment has accelerated under multi-year programmes co-funded by the European Union's Cohesion Fund and Connecting Europe Facility. Bridge replacement projects typically involve multi-span steel or concrete structures designed for higher axle loads and speeds than legacy constructions, many of which date to the early 20th century.