The service of Miter Platoon Tigre Retiro Branch will suffer total interruption from the January 10th and until February 28th. The measure extends through fifty days and affects the more than 50,000 passengers who travel on this line every day.
The interruption of service at the Tigre branch occurs due to the execution of a Series of works that Trenes Argentinos started ten months ago. In the summer they will coexist two major works. On the one hand it is They will renew the tracks of the Tigre branch and modernization work is being added Signaling system at the Retiro terminal.
The aim of this work is to progress continuously and effectively during the summer window, a period in which a is registered less passenger traffic for the holidays. The authorities promised: “The continuous work methodology and work carried out during this period will allow us to reduce business interruptions in the future.”.
Trenes Argentinos reported that the Sleepers and rails You own more than 40 years old and they are very deteriorated. The route has more than forty sections where trains are currently running at cautionary speeds. The company explained: “These are works that are urgent nature“As the sleepers and rails are more than 40 years old, they are severely damaged and the line has more than 40 sections where trains are currently running at cautionary speeds, causing delays and cancellations in traffic.”
The work on the Tigre branch is framed Railway emergency and that’s what they are carried out by Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura. The plan calls for total renovation forty kilometers Track, of which already installed twenty kilometers the laying of railways.
They will intervene during the cut 7700 meters in inaccessible sectors. The rehabilitation of the roads is carried out from ground to ground Chrysologist Larralde to the railway crossing Laprida and will work from bottom to level Martin Rodríguez to the low level Chacabuco. The plan includes the painting of the Vicente López train station and the avenue bridges Figueroa Alcorta and avenue Dorrego.
The work includes the renovation of the third rail. The separation and connection of the signaling system will be carried out through works that provide for the intervention of 24 level crossings and 22 pedestrian crossings. Four bumpers are being replaced Tiger station and 23 railway tracks will be replaced and 65 bridges or culverts will be repaired.
Authorities said that the Scope of tasksDue to the topography of the site and difficult accessibility, it is not possible to carry out the work at night.
It is not the first time that this route has been affected by renovation work this year. Progress has already been made due to night work and absences on long weekends lay twenty kilometers of new roads. In addition, there was Track replacement on ten station squares, the intervention of fourteen level crossings and improvements to twelve bridges and culverts on the route.
The Tigre branch was closed for nine days last August. The Miter and José León Suárez branches had limited operations during this period until Belgrano R. The Tigre branch was also closed for four days in September and the long weekend from November 21st to 24th.
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