PCO renovates 97 railway stations in Iraq

Portal Iraq reports:

Ninety-seven railway stations have been renovated by the Facilities & Transportation (F&T) Sector of the Project & Contracting Office (PCO). The $42 million railroad program has 28 more stations to complete.

Forty-one of the completed stations are in northern Iraq throughout the governorates of Salah al-Din, Ninewa and Tameem.

There are two main types of railway stations under renovation: five-room crew stations used only by railway workers, and nine-room passenger stations for use both by railway passengers and railway workers, according to the PCO. Of the 97 railway stations to be worked on by the PCO, approximately 22 are passenger stations; the rest are crew stations only.

Currently the railway works out to be about 30 percent passenger use and 70 percent freight use. [more]

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  1. Actually there are 97 total stations to be renovated under the project management of PCO. Other railway fixed facilities programmed for repairs by the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (which PCO works for) include:

    Shalchiya Shops, Baghdad
    Bayji Shops, Bayji (underway)
    Samawa Shops, Samawa (underway)

    Plus:
    Iinstallation of a microwave communication backbone to support VHF radio, data transmission, and the train-control system
    Repairs to wheel lathes
    LAN system for the headquarters complex in Baghdad
    Track-maintenance machinery (23 trolley gangers, six ballast regulators, six sleeper exchangers, four production tampers, one dynamic track stabilizer, three self-propelled flash-butt welders; two self-propelled hydraulic rail pullers)
    Track tools and safety equipment
    Spare parts and materials for rolling stock and track
    120 new articulated intermodal container wagons (all delivered)
    4 new container handlers

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