The Minister of Transport and Public Works, José Luis Falero, assured that the freight train will begin to operate in 2024.
The minister of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP), Jose Luis Faleroensured that the construction of the highway central railwaywhere they are currently working on communication with the plant PSU 2the accesses to Montevideoand level crossings, It will be ready before Christmas this year..
Falero, indicated that the construction is expected to be completed before December 24 and the testing and signaling stage can begin, in order to enable, a couple of months later, next year the operation of the freight train will begin.
The head of the MTOP indicated that at that time of the year it should be “the finished track”and explained that “it is going to take a couple more months to put everything into operation, security, signage, to have the guarantees of a safe route.”
“In the first months” the railway should already be in circulation, said Falero, who added that “the operators must still be trained in what fundamentally concerns signaling.” On the other hand, he indicated that once the train works, it will be possible to solve the existing overload problem in the route 5.
How is the Central Railway project?
The national government defines the Central Railway as a “relevant infrastructure work for the multimodal transport system and the most important of the railway mode in recent years”, and that its priority goal is the transport of pulp from the new UPM 2 plant to the port of Montevideo for export.
The work consists of the construction and maintenance of 273 kilometers of railways between the Port of Montevideo and the city of Paso de los Toros (tacuarembó), which will allow the circulation of freight trains at 80 kilometers per hour and 22.5 tons per axle.
Source: Ambito
