Construction of the second track at the Buoy – Vologda section
In 2004, the company started building the second railway track at the Buoy – Vologda section of the Northern Railway with the completion of the turnkey object in 2006.
The volumes of the main work are:
building embankments – 1,500,000 m3;
hillside cutting – 203,500 m3;
laying and ballasting the top track structure – 121 km;
installing pointwork switches – 113 sets;
building medium and small bridges – 20 bridges;
building reinforced concrete pipes – 38 items;
building an overpass – 1 item;
building facilities and structures – 28 items;
installing power supply lines – 148.2 km.
Its own inventions were used during the work:
Patent RU 40327 U1 "Package for suspending a railway track when repairing or building artificial structures"
Patent RU 2239018 C1 "Method for overhauling a pipe under an embankment"
On November 30, 2006, a Grand Opening for the second track and putting the first freight train into operation occurred. Putting the second track into operation allowed to increas cargo flows along the Buoy – Vologda railway by 1.6 times.