Progress of work delivery on the Warszawa Zachodnia railway station has passed 60%
Under a contract for the alteration of the Warszawa Zachodnia railway station, work is currently underway along a railway section 3.5 km long. The station’s roof for existing platforms 3, 4 and 5 and new platforms is being built now. A new railway station building is developing on the railway station’s side from the direction of the Wola district of Warsaw. Nearly 550 people and approx. 130 equipment units are in operation on the construction site.
The work on this largest project of PKP Polskie Linia Kolejowe S.A., worth more than 1.9 billion PLN and developed by Budimex, began in December 2020. The work is approximately 60% completed on the Warszawa Zachodnia project. A roof is being built over the existing platform 3, 4 and 5. “The central part of the railway station is having a concourse roof installed now on rectangular piling. The foundation works have already been completed here, with more than 100 linear metres of diaphragm walls reaching 35 metres below the ground level,” says Patryk Jaworski, Construction Manager of the Warszawa Zachodnia station at Budimex S.A.
Pouring of concrete of the first floor slab of a pedestrian tunnel to link platforms 3, 4 and 5 has begun. The work down the pipeline will include the existing platforms 4 and 5, and construction of new platforms for the station. A new railway station building is developing on the railway station’s side towards the Wola district. “We have already completed about 70% of the steel structure. We have built all the foundations and 60% of the walls. In the eastern part, construction of a 280-metre-long retaining wall is underway. It will serve as the revetment of an embankment that will link cross-city line tracks with long-distance line tracks, which means Track 2 with Track 1 ŚR that goes to the Warszawa Centralna station and the Warszawa Wschodnia station further out”, Patryk Jaworski adds.
From the direction of the Warszawa Włochy railway station, work is underway to extend a structure that forms a two-level intersection of the trackwork. The foundations for the structure have already been completed. 10 km of DSM pillars were drilled under the structure and the Radom-bound railway line.
The work on platform 3 and 4 is planned to end by September this year. From July, all four cross-city line tracks that run from Warszawa Zachodnia to Warszawa Centralna and Warszawa Wschodnia should be open for service.
Warszawa Zachodnia is a strategic railway station in Poland in terms of the number of trains crossing it. On average, about 1,000 cross-city, regional, and long-distance domestic and international trains pass through the station every day. The construction work is carried out as part of the Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment, Measure 5.1-13 “Works on the Warsaw cross-city line between Warszawa Zachodnia and Warszawa Wschodnia”. The project, which is worth PLN 1.9 billion, should be completed in 2024.