Projects

In the largest iron ore mine in Central Europe, an overhead line system is being built to transport material along the main conveyor line.

The Graz local transport hub is to be further improved by the renovation of the large shunting yard by 2026.

Along the existing route, the high-voltage towers will be replaced with a complete replacement of the electrical circuit.

A new 380 kV line is being built between Ganderkesee and St. Hülfe. EUROPTEN took over the project planning, the master’s direction and the rope pulling for this section.

A 110/220 kV line is being dismantled along the Gütersloh – Lüstringen section and will be replaced by a new 110/380 kV line.

The energy supply for the Sonnblick observatory was set up over 30 years ago. In order to protect the line from failures in the future, a redundant energy supply with a second 20 kV energy air traveling cable is being set up.

The existing 220 kV line, which leads from the Salzburg substation (Elixhausen) to the Tauern substation (Kaprun), was built in 1960. After a long period of operation, modernization is now urgently required.

Along line 4000, the section between the Müllheim and Schliengen stations will be expanded to include four tracks and the Müllheim station will be renewed.

The upgraded line Emmerich – Oberhausen is part of the most important European transport corridor from Rotterdam to Genoa and is one of the major infrastructure development projects in Germany.

Overhead line renewal and conversion works at Augsburg Railway Station in the area of Holzbachbrücke.

The Lindau rail hub will be expanded extensively in the next few years. All railway tracks will be electrified and a new railway station will be built in the Lindau district of Reutin.

In a consortium project the overhead line system of the eastern Höllentalbahn (Hell Valley Railway) was fully electrified.

As an electrical engineering company we have comprehensive know-how in constructing foundations for masts, noise barriers and signals for railway track systems.

Europten Schweiz AG was commissioned to plan the railway electrification system for the Waldenburg railway station and several track sections of the Waldenburg Railway.

At the beginning of June 2018 ÖBB Infrastruktur AG commissioned European Trans Energy GmbH to electrify the Gailtal Railway. The single-track line from Arnoldstein to Hermagor was fully electrified by the end of the 2019.

EUROPTEN carried out a complete overhaul of the 110kV line from Partenstein to Ranna and from Ranna to Rohrbach in Austria.

For the line upgrade Munich - Lindau EUROPTEN was contracted to install the overhead line system at the track section from Hergatz to Lindau. By closing the electrification gap of the last track section between Hergatz and Lindau trains will soon be able to run with electric traction from Munich to the Allgäu region.

The electrification and upgrading of the track section from Munich via Memmingen to Lindau creates a modern transportation service for the Allgäu region and the connection between the two European metropoles Munich and Zurich.

EUROPTEN carried out the planning and the entire construction of the overhead line system for the western Höllentalbahn (Hell Valley Railway) line, i.e. line 4300 W, from Freiburg main station to Neustadt station.

At the 4300 Höllentalbahn railway line EUROPTEN fitted a new overhead line system at a length of approximately seven kilometres at the track section between Titisee and Neustadt.

In September 2016 the Swiss railway company Zentralbahn awarded EUROPTEN Schweiz AG the contract to construct the overhead line in the rail section from Sachseln to Giswil. The track was completely closed for these works from kilometers 23.3 to 29. During this complete closure of the track 3.9 km of catenary and 750 metres of rail tracks had to be removed and rebuild. This required a close coordination with the track construction company.

On 15 April 2017, Holy Saturday, two trains collided at Meidling railway station at 4.30 p.m. and damaged the overhead line system. With the commitment and effort of the EUROPTEN team operation of the railway traffic was restored quickly.

To facilitate freight and passenger traffic the Pottendorf Line will be completely upgraded between Wiener Neustadt and Vienna Meidling. In January 2017 EUROPTEN was commissioned to carry out the pole setting and overhead line works between Hennersdorf station and Achau railway station (construction section 1). This was completed at the end of 2019.

Esbjerg – Lunderskov is the first section of the Danish Electrification Programme which aims at electrifying approximately 1,300 km of railway tracks by 2026. EUROPTEN supported this project as a subcontractor for overhead line installations.

The 66-year-old overhead power line needed an extensive overhaul. EUROPTEN was commissioned with the general overhaul at construction section 1.

In the course of implementing the energy transition TenneT TSO GmbH and Amprion GmbH plan to upgrade the transmission grid in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. One section of this upgrade comprises the line with a length of 31.3km from Dörpen West substation to the connection point in Meppen.

FART SA, based in Locarno, Switzerland, operates the narrow-gauge railway, with a gauge of one meter, from Locarno in the canton of Ticino through Centovalli to the Swiss border in Ribellasca, Italy. The catenary system is a maintenance-intensive catenary system that dates back to the 1950s.

The Three Lakes Railway (line 4301) diverges from the Höllental railway (line 4300) at Titisee station. It runs as a branch line to Seebrugg station and ends there at kilometer 19,810. The entire system was renewed by European Trans Energy GmbH from April to June 2016.

After the Gotthard Tunnel the Ceneri Base Tunnel is the second biggest tunnel building project of the ‘New Railway Link through the Alps’ (NRLA) in Switzerland. This route is aiming at improving the rail transit traffic from north to south and at shifting goods traffic from road to rail.

Europten has installed a new catenary system at the Vienna Inzersdorf Terminal of the Austrian Federal Railways so that the goods traffic can be handled in an even more environmentally friendly way.

For 2015, an installed wind generation capacity of 4,400 MW was expected on the west coast, so it was urgently necessary to expand the high-voltage network in this area.

The project ‘Erding Ring Closure (Erdinger Ringschluss) – Improving the Rail Connection to Munich Airport’ was aiming for improving the rail connection of the Munich Airport and for connecting the airport not only with suburban railways (S-Bahn) but also regional railways.

Tullnerfeld station connects the new line from Vienna to St. Pölten to the existing line from Tulln to Herzogenburg. This section will provide sufficient capacities for freight transport and faster intervals for passenger transport.

Planning and construction of a catenary system (Re330)

The projects ‘Section 4, Coswig‘ and ‘Section 6, Rosslau Goods Station, Construction Phase 4’ included restructures of rail systems between Coswig and Piesteritz and a restructure of the Rosslau Goods Station (construction phase 4).

The South-West Interconnector, also known as the ‘Thuringian power bridge’, was a 380 kV overhead line constructed by 50Hertz in three sections between Bad Lauchstädt (Saxony-Anhalt) and Redwitz (Bavaria).