Overhaul of railway tracks continues on the South Caucasian Railway

ArmInfo. Representatives of the South Caucasian Railway and the Ministry of Territorial  Administration and Infrastructures of Armenia got acquainted with the  process of overhaul of railway tracks on the Maisyan-Jajur section.   According to the press service of the company, the Commission, headed  by Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Simonyan and  General Director of "South Caucasus Railway" Aleksey Melnikov ,  visited, in particular, the Jajur-Kaltakhchi section, where 2 km of  track was thoroughly restored.

The overhaul of the track began in  mid-April. In general, this year it is planned in the amount of 9.5  kilometers.

The brigade of the Masis track machine station has already started  field work on the Sanahin-Tumanyan stretch in the Lori region of  Armenia. It is also planned to carry out repair work on the  Jajur-Kaltakhchi, Proshyan-Yeghvard and Sevan- Tsovagyugh sections.  

The overhaul of the tracks involves the renewal of the upper layer of  the earthen embankment, the complete replacement of the track panel  with the replacement of wooden sleepers with reinforced concrete  ones.  

This year the company plans to purchase and install 28 thousand  reinforced concrete sleepers and 15.3 thousand cubic meters of  crushed stone.  The size of the planned investments of SCR in  infrastructure alone for 2021 is 2 billion 773 million drams.  

The South Caucasian Railway CJSC is a 100% subsidiary of the Russian  Railways OJSC and carries out concession management of the Armenian  railways.  

The railway infrastructure of Armenia was transferred to the  concession management of the SCR CJSC in accordance with the  Concession Agreement signed on February 13, 2008. The term of the  concession management is 30 years with a renewal right for another 10  years.