The railway infrastructure preparation for the Euro 2012 championship is at the final stage. While carrying out preparatory works, railway workers installed 300 railway switches on 2,300 km of trunk railways upgraded for high-speed traffic.
Railway enterprise workers will install another 39 "switches” for the first Hyundai train startup, Ukrzaliznytsya (Ukraine’s State Railroad Transportation Administration) press service reports.
The installed railway switches designated for passenger traffic with the speed of up to 200 km/h have been manufactured by the national enterprise Dnipropetrovsk Railway Switch Factory. Ukrazaliznytsya carries out major railroad upgrades in order to introduce high-speed traffic at its own expense.