Rail Baltica bridges key infrastructure gap
Rail Baltica has started the construction of a rail bridge over the Neris river, in Lithuania. When finished, it will be the longest railway bridge in the Baltic States. The project will cost around 64 million euros.
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For sake of resilency, now bridges ,as any vitals and pending bottlenecks of railways, need to be be constructed, with “height” for future demand of Market, for 45 ton axial loads, etc.
With current high quality steel material, a standard UIC60 rail, with safe margins withstand that, but unnecessarily, by system, not even the current, modest 22,5…
(At basics of railways, currently by far, broken rail, is the most common reason for derailments, those most costly…)